People in Aichi Prefecture (Japan) have arrested a 23-year-old man for violating the country’s unfair competition prevention law. In accordance with Asahi News, the suspect is accused of selling a modified Sobble.
Last April, the suspect, an unemployed Nagoya resident, allegedly hacked the character into a computer and sold it to a Kyoto man for 4,400 yen ($ 42). At a press conference today, prefecture police showed the desktop PC used to alter the data.
The suspect, Asahi News he adds, he is said to have confessed.
Under Japanese law, inappropriate activity like this infringes the Unfair Competition Prevention Act.
For a year until last November, the man is believed to have earned 1,150,000 yen ($ 10,900) to sell modified Sword and Shield Pokémon characters.