The court also ordered Mizuhara to pay Ohtani $17 million in restitution, the applicable amount listed when Mizuhara struck a May 2024 plea deal with prosecutors, and a fine of more than $1 million to the Internal Revenue Service.

The former interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani was sentenced Thursday to four years and nine months in prison and three years' supervised release for bank and tax fraud after he stole nearly $17 million US from the Los Angeles Dodgers player's bank account.

The former interpreter of Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani, Ippei Mizuhara, is set to serve 57 months in prison on top of paying $17 million in restitution and another $1.1 million to the IRS.