Sonic Co-Creator Convicted Of Insider Trading, Faces More Than

Sonic the Hedgehog co-creator Yuji Naka has been formally sentenced to prison for insider trading, and is expected to serve two and a half years in jail. Additionally, Naka has received two fines, one of $17,800 and a supplementary penalty of $1.2 million. Naka’s defense team is now aiming for his sentence to be suspended sentence and to have his fines lowered, as it claims that Naka “accidentally saw information that was extremely unrelated to [his] work,” as reported by Japanese news site Abema Times (via VGC).

Final judgment for Naka is expected to arrive on July 7, and prosecutors claim that the Balan Wonderworld director has “showed no signs of remorse” for the…