Tateinheit of multiple instances of bribery: consolidation of consideration across corrupt agreements

The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) dismissed the appeals of the defendants as unfounded, upholding the lower court's conviction and ordering each appellant to bear their own costs. The dispute concerned whether multiple instances of accepting advantages in office constituted a single crime under the principle of factual concurrence (Tateinheit) or separate offenses. The court held that factual concurrence correctly applied to three of the charged counts because the compensation provided by the defendants was partially consolidated across the underlying corrupt agreements. The decisive legal basis is the doctrine of concurrence regarding corruption offenses, specifically the principle that simultaneous performances for multiple violations of the prohibition on corruption are treated as a single act when the consideration is partially aggregated.