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PARIS (AP) — World Cup winner Paul Pogba paid 100,000 euros ($100,000) to an organized group including his brother that was trying to extort him for millions, French officials said on Tuesday.

French prosecutors are investigating allegations that Pogba was the target of extortion by his brother Mathias Pogba and childhood friends. They demanded 13 million euros from the France midfielder, and repeatedly intimidated him, claiming he didn’t support them after he became an international football star.

An official close to the investigation confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday that Pogba told investigators he had already paid 100,000 euros. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with official practice during an ongoing investigation.

According to French media reports, Paul Pogba told investigators the extortionists wanted to discredit him by claiming he asked a witch doctor to cast a spell on another French star, Kylian Mbappe. Paul Pogba denied the allegation.

Mathias Pogba on Sunday appeared to address the witch doctor claim in a Twitter post, directed at Mbappe: “Kylian, do you understand now? I have nothing against you, what I am saying is for your own good, everything is true and known, the witch doctor is known!”

Mbappe has not responded and has not commented on the scandal that appears to stem from a family feud.

The president of the French Football Federation, Noel Le Graet, downplayed the scandal that includes two of France’s stars just four months before the World Cup.

“These are just rumours at this point,” Le Graet said in an interview with Radio Monte Carlo on Monday. Regarding Paul Pogba, who is currently sidelined by a knee injury, Le Graet added: “I love Paul. I hope this does not call into question his (World Cup) spot on the French side.”

The case became public after Mathias Pogba posted on social media last weekend threats to share “explosive” revelations about his brother, Paul’s agent Rafaela Pimenta, and Mbappe. In Instagram videos, Mathias seemed to be reading a statement in Italian, Spanish, English and French promising “great revelations.”

“All this is likely to be explosive,” Mathias added.

France’s public broadcaster BFM reported on Tuesday that Paul Pogba made the payment in April after he was threatened by masked, armed men in a Paris apartment in March while he was in France for national team matches.

The group also made demands of Paul at the Juventus training center in Turin. He said Mathias was among them, according to reports by France-Info, also a public broadcaster.

In response, Paul issued a statement through his lawyer that said his brother’s claims were “in addition to threats and extortion attempts by an organized gang against Paul Pogba.”

The Paris prosecutor’s office said on Monday it opened an investigation this month into attempted organized extortion, which is being handled by anti-corruption police. It would not provide further details involving an ongoing investigation.

Paul Pogba, aged 29, won the World Cup with France in 2018 and returned this summer to Juventus after six seasons at Manchester United. Mathias Pogba, three years older, is also a football player who has spent most of his career with lower-tier teams in Europe.

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Approximately 500 students between the ages 12 and 17 years were given an opportunity to learn about investment and various types of investment vehicles, such as stocks, cryptocurrency and mutual funds as well as the future of payment systems.

This took place at a three-day, Building the Junior Investor Summer Camp, organised recently by the JN Foundation.

Dejario Dickson, a student of Wolmer’s Boys’ School and a JN Scholar, who attended the summer camp, said that the experience was a rewarding one as he learned lifelong lessons about saving, budgeting and investing that will assist him as he gets older.

The second former said his takeaway lesson from the camp is how to build generational wealth as well as the importance of investing early.

“You can start to build your own empire and when you build on it and when it becomes successful, you can continue a new generation of wealth. All you need to do is start investing from early,” he said.

Meanwhile, one parent lauded the JN Foundation for organising the summer camp and noted that the children have learned a lot from the exposure.

“It is a brilliant idea and provided an amazing experience for the children. Whoever came up with this idea, thumbs up to them. The idea of educating kids from early to invest, and encouraging them not to squander their money, but to be responsible and inform them that investment is the way to go [is good advice],” said Melanie Guthrie.

Shanna Kaye Wright Vaughn, Lead – Youth and Education Programmes, JN Foundation, said there were over 700 registrants for the summer camp which was held virtually, with approximately 500 children attending on all three days.

“That within itself is tremendous. The JN Foundation is happy to have exposed these secondary students to the fundamentals of financial literacy, underscoring the importance of budgeting and saving. We are happy about the feedback and that it was a success,” she said.

Wright Vaughn said the intention is to offer the summer camp annually. Six outstanding participants along with their parent/guardian were invited to a luncheon and meet and greet session where they met senior managers of the JN Group – JN Bank, JN Fund Managers and MC Systems. They were also given a tour of the JN Bank Half-Way-Tree location and a hands-on experience with the JN Smart ATMs and coin machine.

The participants in the summer camp benefited from presentations from representatives of the Jamaica Stock Exchange,Carib DAO, as well as from JN Group member companies: JN Fund Managers, JN Bank and MC Systems and the JN Foundation.

The summer camp was executed under the JN Foundation BeWi$e Financial Empowerment programme which has, for close to a decade, been bringing financial literacy to Jamaicans through training at various institutions and organisations across Jamaica. The aim is to raise the level of financial literacy and improve money management skills among Jamaicans.

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Dear Editor,

The sugar entity is in the news again. One report gives a detailed account of how an estate overpaid two contractors. Cash-strapped but overpayment, the outcome due to poor decisions. It has to be wondered whether this is how the frequent cash injections into the industry are being managed. One manager resigned after the report recommended disciplinary action against him and others.

Another report tells of the downing of tools by workers at a different estate, with fingers pointing in a certain direction as to responsibility, as their substantive work could no longer be supported, even though alternative work on the estate was found for them (INews August 28).

While the workers’ claims and concerns seem reasonable, there is a theme running through their cries: it appears the workers are not amenable to stepping out of their comfort zone to try different types of work. They are set in their ways, and are opposed to any work or challenges outside of what they know or have been doing for a long time. Hence the current situation.

It must be recognised and accepted that the work of the organisation is bigger than the employee, and it is the organisation which makes the ultimate decision on worker utilisation.

The sugar entity is in the news again for the wrong reasons.

Sincerely,Shamshun Mohamed

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