{"id":55642,"date":"2023-06-02T01:22:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T16:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/01\/sonic-the-hedgehog-co-creator-yuji-naka-alleged-insider-trading"},"modified":"2023-06-02T01:22:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T16:22:34","slug":"sonic-the-hedgehog-co-creator-may-face-jail-over-alleged-insider-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55642","title":{"rendered":"Sonic the Hedgehog co-creator may face jail over alleged insider trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors are reportedly seeking a prison term and a near-\u00a31m fine for ex-Sega developer Yuji Naka <\/p>\n<p>One of Sonic the Hedgehog\u2019s creators is facing possible jail time and a fine of close to \u00a31m for his alleged part in an insider trading scheme, according to a court report by Japanese media.<\/p>\n<p>Yuji Naka, who co-created <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/sonic-the-hedgehog\">Sega\u2019s blue-spiked mascot<\/a>, was arrested in November last year over allegations he traded in stock with privileged information for a significant profit.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/01\/sonic-the-hedgehog-co-creator-yuji-naka-alleged-insider-trading\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors are reportedly seeking a prison term and a near-\u00a31m fine for ex-Sega developer Yuji Naka One of Sonic the Hedgehog\u2019s creators is facing possible jail time and a fine of close to \u00a31m for his alleged part in an insider trading scheme, accordi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1486,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,1684,88,600,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-games","category-japan","category-stock-markets","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55643,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55642\/revisions\/55643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}