Key legal question
Whether the conviction violated the accusatory principle because the judgment relied on different laundering facts than the indictment.
Extracted holding
Yes. The indictment described laundering of proceeds from the coal-trade corruption scheme, whereas the conviction rested on laundering the corrupt payment due to C.; the accused was not properly given a chance to address that different factual basis.
Extracted reasoning
The accusatory principle requires the indictment to define the object of the trial and safeguard the defense. A court may deviate only if the accused can respond to an adequately completed or modified accusation. Here, the factual basis used for conviction significantly differed from the one charged and was neither specifically alleged nor debated.