Criminal mitigation for voluntary self-incrimination: sufficiency of vague hints to co-defendant as significant contribution to uncovering the offense

The Federal Court of Criminal Justice (BGH) rejected the appeals of the defendants, upholding the judgment of the Berlin Regional Court dated December 12, 2024, which confirmed that no legal errors to the defendants' detriment were found during re-examination. The dispute centered on whether the trial court erred in denying the defendants a significant mitigating credit for voluntarily revealing their co-defendant, a non-appealing party, to authorities. The appellate court held that the lower court correctly concluded that providing only vague hints did not constitute a substantial contribution to the uncovering of the offense beyond their own criminal conduct, thereby denying them the leniency sought.