Prosecutors allege Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter siphoned more than $16m from the Los Angeles Dodgers star's bank account to pay off gambling debts.
Japanese baseballer Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter has been accused of stealing more than $16m from the Los Angeles Dodgers star to cover gambling debts. Ippei Mizuhara is charged with bank fraud after allegedly stealing the funds from an account of Ohtani that he helped to set up. According to the US Attorney for the Central District of California, E. Martin Estrada, those funds were sent to an illegal sports gambling operation.
' Mizuhara began gambling with an illegal sports book and losing substantial sums in late 2021, according to a legal document on Thursday. He repeatedly impersonated Ohtani to 'trick and deceive' bank employees into authorising wire transfers, the papers state. They add that on or about 20 March, while messaging a bookmaker about reports he had stolen from Ohtani, Mizuhara wrote 'technically I did steal from him, it's all over for me'.
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