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‘Beyond shocked’: Shohei Ohtani says interpreter stole from him and told lies (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I am extremely skeptical of all of this. The story has already changed, from I paid off his debts to he committed fraud and stole the money.

Also, how do you not notice $4.5m missing? He must have accountants and money managers. And most questionable, why would your interpreter have the access and ability to transfer millions of dollars?

Time will tell.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s 100% him just covering for the interpreter, who he was good friends with. He paid off the debts and now Ohtani’s PR folks are trying to fix it all by throwing the interpreter under the bus. They probably told Ohtani he has to go along with it to protect his career

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Or he was using the dude as a gambling proxy. He's in this situation because the bookie outed him. If all he wanted to do is bail out his bro, there's a hundred ways to do that while keeping his hands clean.

Face it, the dude got blackmailed, the feds caught wind of it, and the bookie talked.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

While there's a good chance the truth is Ohtani has a gambling problem, it's entirely possible he just paid off the debt and didn't know doing so was illegal. Couple that with translation issues and you can see why they'd backpedal, then wait.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Fucking wild

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the full story has yet to come out. It will be wild.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not only that but why/how would an interpreter have any access to bank accounts? That seems way more unlikely than Ohtani using him as a fall guy for betting.

Regardless, I hope the truth comes out one way or another.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I believe that he never bet on baseball. I don't believe that he had no idea his friend was in gambling debt and that the money was stolen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

"I'm shocked, shocked, to find that gambling is going on in here."

"Your winnings, sir."

"Oh, thank you very much."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It could be both that his friend had a bad gambling habit and went into debt and he participated himself.

Either way we'll never hear the actual truth, Ohtani is equivalent to Jesus in Japan now so if the dodgers or California punished him in any way every Japanese sponsor of the MLB would be in an uproar.