Ippei Mizuhara, former interpreter for baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani, impersonated him on a bank call to transfer $200,000, according to prosecutors. Mizuhara pleaded guilty to bank and tax fraud for stealing almost $17 million from Ohtani, and prosecutors are seeking a nearly five-year sentence.
Shohei Ohtani's then-interpreter Ippei Mizuhara stands in the dugout during a game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres, at the Gocheok Sky Dome, in Seoul, South Korea, on March 20, 2024.A nearly four-minute audio recording allegedly captured Shohei Ohtani ‘s former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara impersonating the baseball star on a call with a bank as he attempted to transfer $200,000 for what he describes as a car loan, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
Mizuhara is due to be sentenced Feb. 6 after pleading guilty to one count of bank fraud and one count of subscribing to a false tax return. Towards the end of the call, the woman from the bank asks, “Will there be any future wires to your friend?”The legal filing says Mizuhara accessed Ohtani’s account beginning around November 2021 and changed its security protocols so he could impersonate him to authorize wire transfers. By 2024, Mizuhara allegedly had used that money to buy about $325,000 worth of baseball cards at online resellers eBay and Whatnot.
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