Revision challenging criminal conviction; joint and several liability for €2.22M confiscation (Einziehung)

The Federal Court of Justice dismissed the defendant's appeal as groundless, upholding the Cologne Regional Court's conviction, but modified the judgment to order the defendant to pay a confiscation amount of €2,220,000 as a joint and several debtor; the appeal challenged the lower court's decision, which had imposed a liability different from the final joint and several obligation, effectively resulting in a partial correction of the financial penalty within an appeal against a criminal conviction. The decisive legal basis concerns the scope and structure of *Einziehung* (forfeiture/confiscation) liabilities, specifically the imposition of joint and several liability (*Gesamtschuldnerschaft*) for the confiscation sum, where the appellate court corrected the procedural form of the defendant's debt without overturning the underlying conviction.