Key legal question
Whether the German request sufficiently established dual criminality for money laundering assistance
Extracted holding
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.
Extracted reasoning
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.