Filing a Criminal Charge of Insider Trading of Yoshimura Food Holdings K.K. Shares (2)

The SESC filed a criminal charge with the Sapporo District Public Prosecutors Office against one suspect for violation of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (hereinafter "FIEA") (insider trading). Facts that are the subject of the criminal charge as follows.

１．Facts That Are the Subject of the Criminal Charge

Around late May 2023, in the course of concluding or negotiating a share transfer agreement with Yoshimura Food Holdings K.K. (hereinafter "Yoshimura Food Holdings"), whose shares are listed on the securities market established by the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (hereinafter "TSE"), the suspect came to know a material fact concerning the business or other matters of Yoshimura Food Holdings, that the executive decision-making body of Yoshimura Food Holdings had decided to acquire shares of YS FOODS CO., LTD. involving a change of subsidiary. Between around late May 2023 and around late August 2023, before the announcement of the material fact, the suspect purchased 77,100 shares of Yoshimura Food Holdings under the name of the suspect via securities firms on the TSE for a total of approximately 70,880,000 yen, despite no applicable exemption clause under the FIEA.

２．Related Articles

Financial Instruments and Exchange Act
Article 197-2, item (xiii); Article 166, paragraph (1), item (iv); Article 166, paragraph (2), item (i), (p); Article 28, item (ii) of the Order for Enforcement of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act