Revision challenging criminal conviction with correction of confiscation order for value of criminal proceeds under §§ 73, 73c StGB

The defendant’s appeal was rejected as unfounded, with the exception that the lower court judgment was amended to order the confiscation of criminal proceeds totaling €264.40, thereby upholding the original conviction and imposing the costs of the appeal on the defendant. The dispute concerned a criminal matter where the defendant challenged the Landgericht Aachen’s judgment of August 23, 2022, primarily regarding the sentencing or procedural aspects, although the specific underlying charges are not detailed in the operative part of this decision. The decisive legal basis for the revision was the General Federal Prosecutor’s submission, which established that no other legal errors to the defendant’s detriment existed, while the specific monetary adjustment relied on §§ 73, 73c of the German Criminal Code (StGB) for the confiscation of the value of criminal earnings.