{"id":481040,"date":"2024-03-26T08:17:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T12:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481040"},"modified":"2024-03-25T22:35:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T02:35:23","slug":"ohtani-claims-interpreter-stole-money-from-him","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ohtani-claims-interpreter-stole-money-from-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohtani claims interpreter stole money from him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles superstar Shohei Ohtani revealed today he never wagered on sports, and interpreter Ippei Mizuhara stole funds from him and spread lies.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers player held a news conference at Dodger Stadium, 5 days after Ippei was dismissed by the team after his alleged ties to an illegal sportsbook and debts well over 1 million dollars were reported a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m very disturbed and disappointed that someone whom I trusted has done this,&#8221; the Japanese baseballer admitted, sitting next to Will Ireton, the Dodgers\u2019 manager of performance operations, who translated.<\/p>\n<p>Shohei spoke for almost 12 minutes, watching from a document that was on the table. Ohtani didn\u2019t answer any questions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My former interpreter has been stealing money from my account and has been telling lies,&#8221; the Japanese claimed.<\/p>\n<p>A 2-time MVP, Shohei left LA Angels at the end of the last year to ink a record 700 million, 10-year deal with the Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p>Ohtani added that he never wagered on sports and didn\u2019t ask anyone to do it on his behalf or assist anyone in making bets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I never bet on baseball or any other sports, or never have asked somebody to do it on my behalf. I have never went through a bookmaker to bet on sports.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Shohei Ohtani <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cp6a2GJ5Hh\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/cp6a2GJ5Hh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1772386582328160669?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles superstar Shohei Ohtani revealed today he never wagered on sports, and interpreter Ippei Mizuhara stole funds from him and spread lies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":481041,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17101,17863,17254],"news_category":[16708,14084],"gn_keywords":[18925,18481,12402],"acf":{"announce":"Shohei shared that he never bet on sports.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481044,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481040\/revisions\/481044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481040"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481040"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}