Main League Baseball introduced on Friday that it has formally launched an investigation into the Shohei Ohtani, Ippei Mizuhara scenario.
MLB launched this assertion:
“Main League Baseball has been gathering data since we discovered concerning the allegations involving Shohei Ohtani and Ippei Mizuhari from the information media. Earlier at present, our Division of Investigations (DOI) started their formal course of investigating the matter.”
Mizuhara has been accused of “massive theft” of Ohtani’s funds to repay his playing debt to an alleged unlawful bookmaker.
It’s been reported that Ohtani did not know the extent of the situation until Mizuhara addressed the Dodgers on Wednesday following their first sport within the Seoul Sequence.
Mizuhara was fired by the Dodgers earlier this week.
According to ESPN, MLB can not power Mizuhara to cooperate since he not works for baseball.
Moreover, Ohtani might refuse cooperation as a member of the MLB Gamers Affiliation:
“Ohtani additionally might invoke his proper, underneath an interpretation of arbitration precedent, to refuse cooperation due to a felony investigation that’s already underway. Historically, MLB has argued he can invoke such an exception if the participant is a goal of the investigation, which Ohtani isn’t believed to be.”
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