[情報] 法律專家對水原涉賭事件的看法

https://tinyurl.com/ytvb6j47 (從reddit登入可免費觀看文章) LA Times訪問了幾位法律專家對水原涉賭事件的看法 The public so far has only a fragmented picture of the case. But more facts could emerge in coming days and weeks, legal experts said, as federal prosecutors try to make sense of competing claims about Ohtani’s money being used to pay down gambling debts with a suspected illegal bookmaker in California. One key question — but not the only one — is whether the Japanese slugger was, as his representatives claim, the victim of a “massive theft” by his interpreter and right-hand man, Ippei Mizuhara. 一個關鍵的問題是 到底大谷是不是像他律師宣稱的那樣 是被水原偷錢的受害者 Ifrah said high-paid athletes often have staff who handle their business and financial interests, and sometimes do fall victim to betrayal by those people. “We get a lot of calls about professional athletes being in some kind of financial mess because someone close to them accesses their accounts or uses some sort of authority to access their financial assets,” Ifrah said. Because of that, the first question he would be asking if he were a prosecutor on the case, he said, is what kind of access Mizuhara had to Ohtani ’s bank accounts. Ifrah said it would be hard to imagine Mizuhara siphoning millions from Ohtani in cash — which is what most illegal bookmakers deal in, if not crypto payments — without Ohtani or his financial managers knowing or agreeing to it. “You start to wonder, how was that a ‘massive theft’?” Ifrah said. “How did someone go and get cash from a bank account or liquidate one of your financial assets to get cash without you knowing?” 前聯邦檢察官 運彩法專家Jeff Ifrah表示 很難想像在沒有大谷或他的理專知情或同意下 水原還有辦法從大谷身上偷幾百萬現金 "你開始懷疑 這樣算大規模偷竊嗎? 誰有辦法在你不知情下從帳戶拿錢?" Daniel Wallach, a sports betting and gambling attorney in Florida, agreed that any disappearance of millions of dollars should have set off alarms for the people who manage Ohtani’s assets and should have been addressed long before the media started asking questions. “The biggest red flag of all is that this pronouncement that there has been this ‘massive theft’ only occurred in response to the media poking around — like it was Crisis Management 101 to shift the attention away from Ohtani, ” he said. Wallach said there are so many unanswered questions and contradictory explanations from Ohtani and Mizuhara at this point that, in addition to the federal investigation, MLB has no choice but to launch its own review — in part to make a decision as to whether Ohtani deserves to be sidelined. “This requires a full-on investigation because there’s so many inconsistencies and already deeply troubling facts,” he said. “MLB needs to get as much information about this as possible early on to make at least a preliminary assessment as to whether Ohtani should be placed on leave until the conclusion of an investigation.” 另一位賭博法專家Daniel Wallach同意當幾百萬消失時 管理大谷帳戶的人就該對此警覺 "最大問題是偷竊這說法是在回應媒體時才發生的 就像要幫大谷轉移注意力" 因為大谷和水原的說詞有太多前後矛盾之處 Wallach也督促MLB要盡早展開調查 至少要先確定大谷是否應該暫時停職調查 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc), 來自: 184.191.81.15 (美國) ※ 文章網址: https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Baseball/M.1711115733.A.7D7.html