Tokyo police on Tuesday gave to prosecutors their case against nine people, including four active sumo wrestlers and one former wrestler, suspected of illegally gambling on professional baseball games.
It is the first police action targeting active wrestlers who allegedly engaged in the actual betting rather than the organizers of the gambling.
The wrestlers are Shironoryu, 27, from Mongolia, and Daido, 28, from Tokyo, both in the second-tier juryo division, and two in the lower tier. The former wrestler was also in the third-tier makushita division.