French footballer Paul Pogba paid €100,000 ($100,159) to a blackmailer after revealing that he had been threatened by an organized gang whose members included his childhood friends and elder brother Mathias, FranceInfo reported Tuesday.The public radio network, which broke the news on Pogba, reported that he had already paid the sum to his extortionists in March this year. Around this time, Pogba was forcefully taken to an apartment in Paris by his “friends,” where they demanded €13 million from him in the presence of two men armed with assault rifles. The group threatened him to pay €3 million immediately in exchange for the services rendered by his friends, including “protecting” him discreetly for the…
