Yuji Naka Was Arrested By The Police, See What Happened Next

The special investigation by the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office that made the arrest

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The entity said Naka had bought 10,000 shares in Aiming for about 2.8 million yen ($20,000) in late January 2020 after learning of the Dragon Quest tact.

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game next month. The assumption is that he was hoping to profit from the rise in share price following the game's announcement and release.

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Although based on current reporting, it is unclear whether he sold the shares.

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Naka's arrest on Friday followed the arrest of two other former Square Enix employees a day earlier on the same charges.

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After Suzuki learned of Dragon Quest Tact's existence in November 2019,

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Taisuke Sazaki and Fumiyaki Suzuki are said to have been arrested by investigators in late 2019.

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and the beginning of 2020 had bought Aiming stock worth 47 million yen ($336,000).

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Sazaki after Dragon Quest Tactics was announced in February 2020, according to the Asahi Shimbun

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And Suzuki sold its Aiming shares, making a profit of hundreds of millions of yen.

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The paper's sources also say that Sazaki was actually a member of the joint development team working on Dragon Quest Tactics.

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Szaky received a "special thanks" mention in the credits of Balan's Wonderland.

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