{"id":20329,"date":"2022-11-20T03:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T03:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/sonic-co-creator-yuji-naka-reportedly-arrested-for-insider-trading\/"},"modified":"2022-11-20T03:00:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T03:00:41","slug":"sonic-co-creator-yuji-naka-reportedly-arrested-for-insider-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/sonic-co-creator-yuji-naka-reportedly-arrested-for-insider-trading\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic co-creator Yuji Naka reportedly arrested for insider trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\nYuji Naka, known as the father of Sonic the Hedgehog, has reportedly been arrested in Japan on suspicion of insider trading.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe news was reported this morning by Japanese newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/mainichi.jp\/english\/articles\/20221118\/p2a\/00m\/0na\/042000c\">Mainichi<\/a>, and comes a day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/square-enix-ex-employee-arrested-accused-of-insider-trading\">two other men were reported to have been charged with insider trading connected to Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix<\/a>. Naka, you  may recall, worked with the company for a brief stint, creating platformer Balan Wonderworld.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNaka, 57, is accused of purchasing shares worth 2.8m yen (around \u00a316.8k) in Aiming, a Japanese developer which Square Enix partnered with to make a Dragon Quest mobile game, before the company&#8217;s involvement was public knowledge.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/sonic-creator-yuji-naka-reportedly-arrested-for-insider-trading\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuji Naka, known as the father of Sonic the Hedgehog, has reportedly been arrested in Japan on suspicion of insider trading. 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