Lawyer Haruo Kitamura
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Lawyer Haruo Kitamura (67) updated his official YouTube channel on the 19th and apologized, saying, “I’m sorry for Mr. Otani.”
Attorney Kitamura raised the issue of fraudulent money transfers with Ippei Mizuhara, who served as an interpreter for Dodgers pitcher Shohei Otani, and began by saying, “There are times when I understand now that I feel sorry for Mr. Ohtani.”
Lawyer Kitamura described the incident in which Suspect Mizuhara first responded in an interview with the sports channel ESPN that “Otani had taken over the debt” and “we transferred the money together from the account our bank.” The next day, he said. , “It was a lie. Immediately afterwards, I changed my words to say that I stole the money without Otani’s knowledge,'” and “When I thought what was true, to be honest, I said 7. Warikata and Otani may seem like nice people, and he may also have a lot of money. If Ippei, who has helped him so far, is struggling with gambling debts, he will do it. “I thought I was in trouble and I took over for myself,” he said.
Sports betting is illegal in California, so if Otani were to take over, Ippei said, “It looks like MLB would ban Otani long-term, which would be a problem,” Ippei said. ‘ thought there was a 70% chance he had changed his statement to protect Otani,” and apologized again to Otani, saying, “I’m sorry.”
He said, “No matter how good a person may look, there are terrible people out there, and we should have been aware of this through our work, but … I made a mistake. deceived by such a great liar.”” he thought. When Otani flatly denied Mizuhara’s request for a “spoken for word” request, Otani said, “I’m glad I didn’t make the wrong decision.”
Suspect Mizuhara is said to have illegally transferred more than $16 million (about 2.45 billion yen) from Otani’s account to his side to pay back illegal gambling debts, and announced by the US Department of Justice on the 11th (Japan time) He was charged with bank fraud on the 12th. According to the Ministry of Justice, Mizuhara sent money between November 2021 and January 2024, using devices and IP addresses associated with Mizuhara. Mizuhara’s gambling records obtained by authorities show that his total winnings during this period totaled 142,256,769 dollars (about 21.8 billion yen), and the amount he lost was 182,935,206 dollars (about 28 billion yen ), the loss was about $8,400,000,000. yen).
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2024-04-19 22:00:00
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