Reuters reports that former Funcom CEO Trond Arne Aas has been charged by The Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime with “market manipulation and insider trading, focusing on a nine-month period in 2011-2012.”

Three additional people are charged with insider trading in relation to Funcom. Lawyers for the accused are maintaining their clients’ innocence.

Trond Arne Aas resigned from his CEO role at Funcom in 2012 on the very same day that The Secret World launched, after which he sold off a significant portion of his stocks, prompting the Norwegian authorities to investigate. In January of 2014, Funcom’s offices were raided by the Norwegian economic crime unit in connection with its securities fraud investigation.

To be clear, we have no specific reason to believe that modern Funcom has any culpability here, but we have reached out to the studio for a statement. (See below for the update and response.)