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.
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
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.
“I’m shocked, shocked, to find that gambling is going on in here.”
“Your winnings, sir.”
“Oh, thank you very much.”
