Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara surrendered himself to federal authorities one day after he was charged with bank fraud and accused of stealing more than $16 million from the Dodgers’ two-way superstar, according to ESPN.

Mizuhara, who was Ohtani’s close friend and had worked with the pitcher since 2017, reportedly was in federal custody and and appeared in a Los Angeles court on Friday afternoon.

He was released on an unsecured $25,000 bond and U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria A. Audero ordered him to seek treatment for sports betting, the Associated Press reported

The ex-Dodgers interpreter wants to “reach an agreement with the government to resolve this case as quickly as possible so that he can take responsibility,” attorney Michael Freedman said in a statement Friday.

Sports betting is illegal in the state of California, and Mizuhara is alleged to have used an illegal bookmaker to place bets.

Mizuhara had worked with Ohtani since the pitcher/designated hitter joined the Los Angeles Angels as a free agent in December 2017.

The reigning American League MVP reached a 10-year, $700 million deal with the Dodgers in December and brought Mizuhara with him.

The Dodgers fired Mizuhara on March 20 amid reports circulating about the scandal.

The bombshell allegations made against Mizuhara were made public last month, while the Dodgers were in Seoul, South Korea, for a two-game, season-opening series against the Padres.

At the time, ESPN reported at least $4.5 million in wire transfers were sent from Ohtani’s bank account to a Southern California bookmaking operation that is under federal investigation.

An affidavit released by federal prosecutors Thursday detailed how Mizuhara allegedly stole more than $16 million from Ohtani’s bank account exclusively funded by deposits as payroll from the MLB in part to fund his illegal sports gambling.

Some employees working for Ohtani confirmed that Mizuhara denied them access to that account.

One professional said when they inquired about the account, the interpreter said the account was “private” and that Ohtani did not want anyone else to monitor it.

Ohtani never gave Mizuhara control over any of his financial accounts, the affidavit reads, but the player’s agents, accountants and financial advisors relied on Mizuhara to translate in one or two such meetings, as they do not speak Japanese.

There was evidence of Mizuhara impersonating Ohtani to get wire transfers through recorded phone calls to the bank, according to the affidavit.

Mizuhara gave law enforcement consent to search his phone and he allegedly admitted to stealing from Ohtani in a conversation in encrypted text messages with alleged illegal bookmaker Mathew Bowyer.

“Technically I did steal from him,” Mizuhara wrote on March 20 in an encrypted text message reviewed by investigators. “it’s all over for me.”

Mizuhara made approximately 19,000 bets through the bookmaker from December 2021 to January 2024 that ranged from $10 to $160,000 per bet, according to the affidavit.

During that period, Mizuhara’s winning bets totaled over $142 million and his losing bets amounted to an estimated $183 million.

His net balance was a loss of $40 million dollars.

Bank records show that the first wire to the bookmaker was in November 2021, and the final wire occurred in January 2024, according to the affidavit.

“Records do not reflect any bets on baseball games,” the affidavit reads.

Federal prosecutors combed through 9,700 pages of text messages in Japanese between Ohtani and Mizuhara from 2020 and 2024 and did not find evidence of the two discussing sports betting.

“Ohtani never authorized any wires to the (bookmaker’s) Account,” the affidavit reads.

Before the affidavit’s release, Mizuhara falsely told ESPN that Ohtani had loaned him money to pay back his gambling debts.

Will Ireton, the Dodgers’ manager of performance operations, stepped in as Ohtani’s temporary interpreter when the scandal broke.