{"id":1193685,"date":"2022-08-29T12:15:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T12:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/29\/paul-pogba-says-he-is-target-of-organised-gang\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T12:15:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T12:15:14","slug":"paul-pogba-says-he-is-target-of-organised-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/29\/paul-pogba-says-he-is-target-of-organised-gang\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Pogba Says He Is Target Of Organised Gang |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Paul Pogba says he has been the target of extortion and threats from an organised gang.<\/p>\n<p>The Juventus and France midfielder issued a statement through his lawyers on Sunday saying the matter had been reported to the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>News agency AFP, citing a source, said French police had opened an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Pogba&#8217;s brother Mathias posted videos online promising to publish &#8220;great revelations&#8221; about the player.<\/p>\n<p>Mathias Pogba said the information was likely to be &#8220;explosive&#8221;, without giving further details.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are in addition to threats and extortion attempts by an organised gang against Paul Pogba,&#8221; read the statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The competent bodies in Italy and France were informed a month ago and there will be no further comments in relation to the ongoing investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A World Cup winner with France in 2018, Pogba moved to Juventus on a free transfer this summer after leaving Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>In his videos, Matthias Pogba said the &#8220;whole world, as well as my brother&#8217;s fans, and even more so the French team and Juventus, my brother&#8217;s team-mates and his sponsors deserve to know certain things&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said the revelations would also involve Pogba&#8217;s agent, Rafaela Pimenta.<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: BBC<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of .  accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Pogba says he has been the target of extortion and threats from an organised gang. The Juventus and France midfielder issued a statement through his lawyers on Sunday saying the matter had been reported to the authorities. News agency AFP, citing a source, said French police had opened an investigation. Earlier, Pogba&#8217;s brother Mathias [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1160765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[7720,9305,3014,6338,1922],"class_list":["post-1193685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gang","tag-organised","tag-paul","tag-pogba","tag-target"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}