Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the confiscated securities depot could be treated as substitute assets from the offence proceeds without a documented paper trail.
Decisione estratta
The confiscation could not be upheld on the present record because the chain linking the illicit commission payments to the seized securities depot was not sufficiently documented; the matter had to be remitted for further fact-finding or for a precisely quantified substitute claim.
Motivazione estratta
Under Art. 70 StGB, substitute assets are only confiscable if the transactions from original proceeds to replacement values can be identified and documented. The record showed that illegal commission payments existed, but not that the seized securities depot was acquired with those payments or otherwise represented them. In the absence of a reconstructable paper trail, the court could not determine whether confiscation or only a state substitute claim was appropriate.