It seems that for the good of Sonic everything is scares lately. Although the reception of Sonic Frontiers by critics has generated a great disparity of opinions, now the arrest of its creator and former head of Sonic Team, Yuji Naka, is added.
The news broke today through several Japanese media that affirm that the father of Sonic the Hedgehog together with the designer Naoto Ohshima, have been arrested for insider trading, allegedly Related to the Dragon Quest sagain a case that would also involve former employees of Square Enix, owner of the IP.
Why has Yuji Naka been arrested?
According to sources close to the investigation, at the beginning of 2020 Sonic’s father learned that Square Enix (the company he worked for at the time) was developing the mobile game together with Aiming. Dragon Quest Touchwhich was released that same summer in Japan.
Neither short nor lazy, and before the project was even announced, Yuji Naka bought 10,000 shares of the studio in exchange for 2.8 million yen, about 19,300 euros to change. As an investment, he thought that the price on the stock market would rise as soon as it became known that Aiming was collaborating on a game in the popular Dragon Quest saga.
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Two other former Square Enix employees, Taisuke Sasaki and Fumiaki SuzukiThey have also been arrested. In this case, between the two they bought 162,000 Aiming shares for 47.2 million yen, about 325,451 euros. After the announcement of Dragon Quest Tact, they sold them, and now all of them face sanctions or penalties yet to be determined.