Recording captured ex-interpreter impersonating Ohtani to transfer $200,000, prosecutors say
Federal prosecutor said on Thursday that a nearly four -minute recording caused Shohei Ohtani’s front mouth translator Ippei Mizuhara to impersonate baseball stars on the phone call with banks. He tried to transfer $ 200,000 in exchange for $ 200,000 for the price. In exchange for the car loan he described.
In the court’s documents, he was cited and was recording by the Associated Press. He was supporting the prosecutor’s sentence to the Swiss Harbin in the past five years. He previously pleaded guilty and tax fraud against banks because he stole nearly $ 17 million from Los Angeles. Dodge’s star.
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Prosecutors also sought to compensate nearly $ 17 million in Ohtani and fined IRS more than $ 1 million.
After being sentenced on February 6th, Mizuhara was sentenced to a bank fraud and a crime of subscribing to false tax declaration forms.
His lawyer Michael G. Freedman did not reply to an email that the Associated Press requested.
In the recording, a person was heard that he was sure he was Ohtani and said he tried to log in to the online banking business, but it was not available. He later confirmed that the transaction amount was $ 200,000.
When a bank’s woman asked him the reason for the transaction, he said it was a car loan.
“What does you have to do with the payee?” She asked.
“Well, he is my friend,” the man replied.
According to Jeff Mitchell, a US assistant lawyer, the recording was obtained from the bank. It is not clear when it is made.
At the end of the phone, the bank’s woman asked, “Will your friends have any future wires?”
“May.” The man said.
The recording is first of all sports.
The law application said that Mizuhara visited Ohtani’s account around November 2021 and changed his security agreement so that he could fake his authorized power exchange. It is said that by 2024, Mizuhara online dealers Ebay and Whatnot used the money to purchase a baseball card worth about 325,000 US dollars.
Mizuhara pleaded guilty in June, and spent millions of dollars in the Arizona Bank account at Ohtani at the price of millions of dollars, in order to pass the illegal dealer and medical expenses and value 325,000 US dollars baseball cards to pay his increasingly growing gambling bets and debts.
Many of the highlights of Mizuhara there are there: he was the player of Ohtani during his home run in the 2021 All -Star Game in 2021. The U.S. League MVP won the championship and set a $ 1 billion of $ 1 billion, which is a 10 -year record. With Daoqi team. Outside the scene, he became a friend and confidant of Ohtani.
During the lock-up of the American Professional Baseball League in 2021, Mizuhara resigned from Los Angeles Angels, so he could continue to talk to Ohtani-he was re-hired after the transaction-reported Their wife social.
But he gambled and bet tens of millions of dollars. This was not his bet in international football, NBA, NFL and university rugby-although the prosecutor said he never bet on baseball.
