The Dodgers fired Shohei Ohtani‘s translator. It is alleged he was a hive of scum and villainy.

Interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, 39, was let go from the team Wednesday following reports from The Los Angeles Times and ESPN about his alleged ties to an illegal bookmaker. The team is in South Korea this week as Ohtani makes his Dodgers debut.

“In the course of responding to recent media inquiries, we discovered that Shohei has been the victim of a massive theft and we are turning the matter over to the authorities,” law firm Berk Brettler LLP said in a statement Wednesday.

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The story is not quite clear, but it seems Mizuhara ran up a lot of gambling debts and used Ohtani’s money to pay them off.