Calculation of statutory pendency interest on criminal financial penalties: start date for accrual in revision proceedings.

The German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) rejected the defendant's revision as unsubstantiated, upholding the conviction and sentence from the lower court while modifying the judgment to specify that the claim for pendency interest (Rechtshängigkeitszinsen) arose only from August 20, 2022; the defendant bears the costs of the revision proceedings, including special costs associated with the adhesion claim and necessary expenses for the ancillary and adhesion plaintiffs. This decision addresses a criminal appeal challenging the legal assessment of a sentencing calculation, specifically the temporal trigger for statutory pendency interest on financial penalties. The decisive legal basis involves the principles of criminal revision review and the specific statutory or case-law doctrine governing the accrual date of pendency interest in criminal proceedings, which the court applied to correct the lower court's timeline without altering the underlying substantive outcome.