Ex-fund manager Murakami gets 2-year prison term for insider trading

Ex-fund manager Murakami gets 2-year prison term for insider trading

TOKYO, Japan - Former investment fund manager Yoshiaki Murakami (far left) walks into the Tokyo District Court to attend his trial on July 19. The court sentenced him to two years in prison, without suspension, and imposed a record 1.15 billion yen surcharge for insider stock trading in 2004 and 2005.

Ex-fund manager Murakami gets 2-year prison term for insider tra

Ex-fund manager Murakami gets 2-year prison term for insider tra

TOKYO, Japan - Former investment fund manager Yoshiaki Murakami arrives at the Tokyo District Court to attend his trial on July 19. The court sentenced him to two years in prison, without suspension, and imposed a record 1.15 billion yen surcharge for insider stock trading in 2004 and 2005. (Kyodo)

Ex-fund manager Murakami gets 2-year prison term for insider tra

Ex-fund manager Murakami gets 2-year prison term for insider tra

TOKYO, Japan - Former investment fund manager Yoshiaki Murakami (far right), accompanied by his lawyers, walks into the Tokyo District Court to attend his trial on July 19. The court sentenced him to two years in prison, without suspension, and imposed a record 1.15 billion yen surcharge for insider stock trading in 2004 and 2005. (Kyodo)

Ex-fund manager Murakami gets 2-year prison term for insider tra

Ex-fund manager Murakami gets 2-year prison term for insider tra

TOKYO, Japan - Former investment fund manager Yoshiaki Murakami (far left) walks into the Tokyo District Court to attend his trial on July 19. The court sentenced him to two years in prison, without suspension, and imposed a record 1.15 billion yen surcharge for insider stock trading in 2004 and 2005. (Kyodo)

High court gives ex-fund manager Murakami suspended prison term

High court gives ex-fund manager Murakami suspended prison term

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo High Court sentenced former investment fund manager Yoshiaki Murakami (in file photo taken July 19, 2007) to two years in prison, suspended for three years, on Feb. 3 overturning a lower court ruling that had given him an unsuspended prison term for insider trading connected to shares of Nippon Broadcasting System Inc. in 2004. (Kyodo)