PAUL POGBA’S brother has been sentenced to a three-year prison term for his role in an £11million blackmail plot against the former Manchester United star.

Mathias Pogba, brother of French footballer Paul Pogba, received a three-year prison sentence, two years suspended, for extortion and kidnapping. He will serve the remaining time under house arrest.

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Former Manchester United and Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba's brother, Mathias Pogba, has been sentenced to three years in prison for attempted extortion for €13 million, and will also be fined ...

Mathias Pogba has been sentenced to three years in prison over the extortion plot against his brother Paul (AFP via Getty) Paul Pogba’s brother, Mathias, has been sentenced to three years in ...

A Paris court on Thursday sentenced a brother of France midfielder Paul Pogba to a three-year prison term, with two years suspended, after convicting him in a high-profile extortion case.

A brother of World Cup winner Paul Pogba was sentenced Thursday by a Paris criminal court to three years in prison -- two of which are suspended -- in an extortion and kidnapping case. Mathias ...

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Paul Pogba's brother has been sentenced to three years in prison, two of which will be suspended, after being found guilty in an extortion case that targeted the Frenchman. Mathias Pogba will be ...