Yuji Naka will go to a colony for 2.5 years.

Sonic creator Yuji Naka will go to prison for 2.5 years and pay more than $1 million in fines due to insider trading and fraud with company shares. In short, the game designer cranked up a scheme for trading shares of gaming companies - he bought shares, threw in some kind of insider information that was beneficial to him in the media, and, after the predicted rise in their value, he sold at a higher price, receiving additional benefits.