Ohta Production Announces YouTuber Vambi Has Left The Agency
The agency cut ties the same day it confirmed the departure, while the underlying case remains under investigation, leaving Vambi's YouTube work and his HERO'ZZ university venture without the agency backing he had been operating under.
Reporting from 1 source: KAI-YOU.
Ohta Production announced on Tuesday, October 13 that its affiliated YouTuber Vambi has left the agency. Vambi had been reported arrested on October 1 by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department as a flagrant offender on suspicion of touching the lower body of a woman in her 20s at a Roppongi club. Ohta Production said the incident is still under investigation and declined further comment.
Ohta Production said the decision came after discussions in a meeting and a request from Vambi himself, and that he left as of October 13. The agency apologized for the trouble caused to all parties involved.
Vambi had been reported arrested on October 1 by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, suspected of touching the lower body of a woman in her 20s at a club in Roppongi before 4:00 a.m. He was believed to be drunk at the time, and officers who responded to a report arrested him as a flagrant offender. The agency said the matter is still under investigation and that it would refrain from answering inquiries.
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