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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe and North America: 756 cases from 32 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.
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by authority- Bundesgerichtshof (2. Strafsenat); Vorinstanz Landgericht Gera — 0 % · 1 case
- Bundesgerichtshof (6. Strafsenat); Vorinstanz Landgericht Neuruppin — 0 % · 1 case
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2 cases
23 Sep 2026 BGH upholds conviction of a procurement head of unit at the OLG Jena for accepting benefits Custodial sentence
A head of unit at the Higher Regional Court of Jena (OLG Jena) responsible for budget, procurement and personnel of the Thuringian judiciary obtained fourteen loans (375 to 10,000 EUR) from two co-defendants between 2013 and 2019, coupled with the tacit expectation that he would take them into account when awarding contracts; he also concluded service contracts in breach of public procurement law (damage exceeding 450,000 EUR). The Regional Court of Gera (LG Gera) imposed an aggregate suspended prison sentence of two years and confiscation. Germany's Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) upheld the conviction for accepting benefits (Vorteilsannahme, not Bestechlichkeit, i.e. taking bribes) in 13 cases, discontinued one time-barred case and set aside the aggregate sentence and the amount of the daily fine rate; the defendant's appeal on points of law will be decided separately.
Private loans from suppliers to procurement officers are a criminal offence even without a specific quid pro quo – contracting authorities need clear rules and staff rotation.
Loans and benefits from contractors to procurement officers
- Authority / court
- Bundesgerichtshof (2. Strafsenat); Vorinstanz Landgericht Gera
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
- Legal basis
- § 331 StGB (Vorteilsannahme), § 266 StGB (Untreue); BGH 2 StR 554/25
- Action
- Custodial sentence
- Status of proceedings
- under appeal
- Sector
- Public sector
- Culpability
- intentional
- Liability of senior managers
- The former head of unit (a management function in the judicial administration) was convicted; two lenders were co-defendants.
- Published
- 23 Sep 2026
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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6 Aug 2025 LG Neuruppin/BGH: 3.5 years' imprisonment for bribing the head of a state-owned waste management company Custodial sentence
From 2015 to 2019, the managing director of a supplier of landfill technology granted the managing director of a waste management company controlled by two German federal states benefits of around 696,325 EUR and in return received preferential contracts. Because the waste management company is state-controlled, its head was deemed a public official. The prison sentence of 3 years and 6 months is final; the confiscation of 1,982,658.63 EUR must be decided afresh.
Anyone supplying municipal or state-owned companies is, in legal terms, bribing public officials – the stricter Sections 331 et seq. StGB (German Criminal Code) apply there, not merely Section 299 StGB.
Managing directors of public companies as public officials
- Authority / court
- Bundesgerichtshof (6. Strafsenat); Vorinstanz Landgericht Neuruppin
- Area of law
- Bribery and corruption · Bribery of public officials
- Legal basis
- § 334 StGB (Bestechung) i. V. m. § 11 Abs. 1 Nr. 2 c StGB; BGH 6 StR 315/24; LG Neuruppin 13 KLs 26/23
- Action
- Custodial sentence
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Energy and utilities
- Culpability
- intentional
- Liability of senior managers
- The supplier's managing director was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months' imprisonment.
- Published
- 5 Jan 2026
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link