Correction of confiscation amount in criminal sentencing

The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) rejected the defendant's appeal as unfounded against the Berlin Regional Court's judgment dated February 8, 2024, with the specific modification that the forfeiture amount was reduced by €20 to a total of €71,044.73, a change adopted from the Public Prosecutor General's proposal; the defendant bears the costs of the legal remedy. The case involved a review of a criminal conviction and the associated order for the confiscation of benefits, where the appellate court conducted a legal re-examination of the lower court's decision. The decisive legal basis relied on the standard appellate review of criminal convictions and the calculation of forfeiture amounts, resulting in a minor numerical correction to the financial order while upholding the underlying criminal liability and all other aspects of the original judgment.