Court orders confiscation of illicit gains but reduces amount due to excessive delay in prosecution proceedings.

The court ordered the defendant to pay a reduced sum of €3,684,654.06 to the state for confiscation of illicit gains, down from the prosecution's request of over €6 million. Although the court accepted the prosecution's calculation of the total illicit gain at €5.9 million, it acknowledged that the criminal proceedings had been delayed by 7.5 years due to the defendant's unknown address. Consequently, the court applied a 10% reduction to the payment obligation as a remedy for the violation of the reasonable time requirement.