French football star Paul Pogba ‘paid 100,000 euros to extortionists’

Paul Pogba (Mike Egerton/PA)

World Cup winner Paul Pogba paid 100,000 euros (£85,000) to an organised group including his brother that was trying to extort him for millions, French officials have said.

French prosecutors are investigating allegations that Pogba was the target of extortion by his brother Mathias Pogba and childhood friends.