The Tokyo District Court has sentenced game designer Yuji Naka for insider trading. He was sentenced to two and a half years in prison with a probation period of four years.

The Tokyo District Court held the third hearing in the case of Yuji Naka, accused of insider stock trading. On it, the prosecutor’s office requested that the former head of Sonic Team be sentenced to 2.5 years in prison and a fine of 172.5 million ($ 1.2 million).

A court session was held in Tokyo, where the case of Yuji Naka, a game designer accused of insider trading in shares of Final Fantasy VII developers, was examined: The First Soldier. The former head of Sonic Team pleaded guilty.

The former head of Sonic Team will appear in court. According to the Japanese publication NHK, the Tokyo prosecutor’s office has officially accused Yuji Naka of insider trading in shares of the developers of the Final Fantasy VII mobile game: The First Soldier.

Japanese police detained Yuji Naka for the second time in the last month. Now he was suspected of insider trading in shares of Ateam Studio, the co—developer of Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier.

A veteran of the Japanese gaming industry, Yuji Naka, was among the suspects in insider trading in shares of the developer studio Dragon Quest Tact. This is reported by FNN Prime Online.

Yuji Naka, one of the authors of Sonic the Hedgehog, presented his first mobile game as an indie developer. This is a hyper-casual puzzle SHOT2048. Naka made it alone on the Unity engine after the failure of the previous project and leaving Square Enix.