Federal authorities say Ippei Mizuhara “used and abused” his position of trust with the baseball superstar “to plunder Mr. Ohtani’s bank account.”
Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, left, is shown walking with his former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, right, during a spring training workout at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Arizona, earlier this year. former Japanese interpreter has been charged with stealing more than $16 million from Ohtani’s bank account to pay the interpreter’s illegal gambling debts, federal authorities announced Thursday, April 11.
At a news conference in downtown Los Angeles, Estrada said Mizuhara had impersonated Ohtani in phone calls to the bank to authorize the wire transfers to a bookmaking operation. Estrada said Mizuhara in 2018 helped Ohtani set up the bank account in Arizona to deposit the ballplayer’s salary, so he was familiar with the codes and personal information to access those accounts.
At the time, Ohtani’s attorneys issued a news release that the Dodgers superstar was the victim of “massive fraud” and that they were turning the matter over to authorities.living in Newport Beach, told ESPN that he had paid the money through Ohtani’s account to an associate of alleged bookie Mathew Bowyer, a former exterminator and commodities trader who now operates a Brazilian jujitsu studio.Bowyer’s attorney, Diane Bass, has said Bowyer dealt only with Mizuhara and never with Ohtani.
Mizuhari was with Ohtani during the ballplayer’s meteoric rise in the big leagues and had become a trusted friend and interpreter. Ohtani took Mizuhara with him when he left the Los Angeles Angeles after six years to join the Dodgers on a 10-year, $700 million contract.
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