Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani claimed in court papers this week that his former interpreter is in “wrongful possession” of that rightfully belong to him.
Ohtani is seeking to recover $325,000 worth of baseball cards that he claims onetime assistant Ippei Mizuhara improperly bought earlier this year, according to a U.S. district court filing by the player and his attorney, Blair Berk.
Mizuhara to illegally transferring $17 million out of Ohtani’s account to fund the interpreter’s massive gambling habit, .
Some of those stolen funds were used on collectibles, Ohtani and his lawyer said in a federal court filing on Tuesday.
“Between January and March 2024, Defendant purchased approximately $325,000 worth of baseball cards at online resellers eBay and Whatnot, with payments drawn on Petitioner’s bank account,” the plaintiffs said.
Mizuhara also has “a quantity of personally signed collectible baseball cards which depict and are the property of Petitioner, and which at the time of their seizure were in the unauthorized and wrongful possession of Defendant,” Ohtani’s legal team said.
An attorney for Mizuhara, who is scheduled to be sentenced in January, could not be immediately reached for comment on Friday.
News of Mizuhara’s involvement with sports betting first broke opened .
Ohtani has and no law enforcement agency has ever accused him of it.
If the Mizuhara scandal distracted Ohtani at all, that inconvenience didn’t last long. Thewent on to win the while leading his Dodgers to their World Series title since 1988.
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