Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani has requested a hearing from the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in order to obtain ownership of $325,000 worth of sports cards purchased by his former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, per Noah Furtado and Evan Drellich of The Athletic.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California previously relayed in an April 11 statement that the 39-year-old Mizuhara previously stole over $16 million from Ohtani to cover gambling debts to an illegal California-based bookmaker. A portion of that money was used to purchased roughly 1,000 baseball cards on eBay and Whatnot.