Yuji Naka, the creator of
Sonic The Hedgehog, was arrested in 2022 in November to trade information. Yuji Naka, who accepted his crime in March, was sentenced to two and a half years prison.
Yuji Naka sentenced
According to the statement by Denfanminicogamer.jp, Naka was sentenced twice as a fine as 2.5 million Yen and 170 million Yen outside this punishment. However, the defense team tries to deduct the numbers. In Naka’s case, plans on games that are still being developed were thought that before the public was announced, two developers buy stock and sell when they were more valuable at a later date.
Naka joined Square Enix to develop the game Balan Wonderworld in 2018. If we came to 2022 a little further, then the Dragon Quest 11 software manager Taisuke Sazaki, the mobile spin-off Final Fantasy 7: The First Soldier development points appeared that he invested in Ateam Entertainment before the public was announced. For this reason, the claims provided by the inside were revealed.
Naka is one of the claims that Aiming is aware of the presence before the game is announced and has 10,000 square shares and 130.000 shares. When it was kept and blamed, Naka was actively working in Square Enix. The Wonderworld created in 2018 was separated from the Square Enix company after its critical and commercial performance. When commercial information is accused of December, Square Enix announced that they can help in the investigation.
Every one of Naka was claimed to buy shares in more than 100 million yen, which is why 172 million yen, that is about 1,2 million fines. Naka in trial on March 2023 also accepted the crime of both accounts related to trade. The prosecution defended the “anounted earnings to the developers and the market’s justice”.
Other two Square Enix employees together with Naka were arrested from the crime of information trading from Fumiaki Suzuki and Taisuke Sasaki. When Square Enix Naka was arrested, he had published a description:
“ We are sad because of the concern that the snakes have created in everyone, including discipline measures of employees who are doubtful, we have addressed the incident tightly.”