Criminal revision: sufficiency of factual findings establishing intent to appropriate and final causation in theft

The German Federal Court of Justice (5th Criminal Senate) dismissed the appeals of the defendants as unfounded, resulting in the full affirmation of the Landgericht Lübeck's conviction from December 18, 2023, and ordered each appellant to bear the costs of their respective legal proceedings. The dispute concerned a criminal matter where the defendants challenged the trial court's findings, but the appellate review established that no legal error to the detriment of the defendants emerged. The court explicitly clarified that the findings of fact legally supported both the intent to appropriate (Zueignungsabsicht) and the causal nexus (Finalzusammenhang), thereby validating the substantive elements of the offense under German criminal law.