Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the German request sufficiently established dual criminality for money laundering assistance
Extrahierter Entscheid
No. In this case there were no serious indications that the EUR 57,750 originated from a felony; the mere splitting of deposits below the identification threshold did not suffice.
Extrahierte Begründung
For money-laundering requests, the predicate offense need not be named, but there must be concrete indicators that the funds stem from a felony. Here the amounts were modest, the background and perpetrators were unknown, and tax offenses were at least as plausible as a felony predicate. Mere abstraction or possibility was insufficient.