Former SoftBank employee convicted of spy case Tokyo District Court July 9th 12:30
Two years in jail for the Tokyo District Court in a trial sentenced by a former employee of Softbank, a former employee of Softbank, for illegally drawing out confidential information, saying that he tried to get a reward in response to a request from a foreign acquaintance , Sentenced to four years in suspension.
Yutaka Araki (48), former General Manager of Softbank, was accused of violating the Unfair Competition Prevention Act in February and March last year for illegally obtaining confidential information regarding communication equipment from the company's server.
In the trial, the defendant acknowledged the charges and said, "I became friends with the Russians and wanted to be useful." The prosecutor had sentenced him to two years in prison and a fine of 1 million yen.
In a judgment on the 9th, Judge Tota Akamatsu of the Tokyo District Court said, "I tried to get a reward in response to a request from a foreign acquaintance, and I got a reward of 200,000 yen each time. History and motives No criminal liability can be taken lightly," he said, and sentenced him to two years in prison, four years in suspension, and a fine of 800,000 yen.
In this case, former Deputy Representative Anton Kalinin of the Russian Trade Representative in Japan who returned to Russia for intriguing the defendant was filed with a document, and prosecution has been suspended on the 2nd of this month.