{"id":170868,"date":"2022-12-28T18:02:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T18:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/yuji-naka-has-been-formally-indicted-for-insider-trading-deals\/"},"modified":"2022-12-28T18:02:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T18:02:59","slug":"yuji-naka-has-been-formally-indicted-for-insider-trading-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/yuji-naka-has-been-formally-indicted-for-insider-trading-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuji Naka has been formally indicted for insider trading deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Sonic boss Yuji Naka has been formally indicted for insider trading deals.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to NHK and spotted by VGC, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office&#8217;s Special Investigation Department have indicted Naka and Taisuke Sasaki for investing millions of yen in a company based on insider information that had yet to be made public.\n<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>The Eurogamer Newscast News Quiz of the Year 2022!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The prosecutors allege that neither Naka nor Saskai would have invested the \u00a5144.7m if they hadn&#8217;t known Square Enix was about to announce a partnership with a mobile developer.\n<\/p>\n<p>Yuji Naka, the former boss of Sega&#8217;s Sonic Team, was reportedly re-arrested in Japan over fresh of insider trading earlier this month, accused of violating financial laws in relation to a mobile game it is claimed he had insider knowledge about.  It follows a similar arrest in November, although that time, it was in relation to a Square Enix-published Dragon Quest mobile game.\n<\/p>\n<p>As Tom summarised for us earlier this year, while most famous for his work on Sonic, Naka worked with Square Enix for a brief spell between 2019 and 2021. In April this year, Naka revealed he had sued Square Enix over his exit from the company , and accused the publisher of booting him off the project before it released Balan Wonderworld in an unfinished state.\n<\/p>\n<p>Naka is yet to comment publicly on any of the above.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    function appendFacebookPixels() {\n      if (window.facebookPixelsDone) return;\n      !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n      {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n      n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n      if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n      n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n      t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n      s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');<\/p>\n<p>        fbq('init', '560747571485047');\n        fbq('init', '738979179819818');<\/p>\n<p>      fbq('track', 'PageView');\n      window.facebookPixelsDone = true;<\/p>\n<p>      window.dispatchEvent(new Event('BrockmanFacebookPixelsEnabled'));\n    }<\/p>\n<p>    window.addEventListener('BrockmanTargetingCookiesAllowed', appendFacebookPixels);\n  <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Sonic boss Yuji Naka has been formally indicted for insider trading deals. 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