Another successful constitutional complaint against decisions granting extradition
ID: 126902
Another successful constitutional complaint against decisions granting extradition
According to the Federal Constitutional Court?s case-law, the constitutional standard of the ban on arbitrariness requires a non-constitutional court?s decision to give reasons inter alia if the reasons cannot already be unambiguously inferred from the law by the parties to the proceedings. Furthermore, in the law governing extradition proceedings, stricter requirements concerning judicial care follow directly from Article 16.2 sentence 1 of the Basic Law (Grundgesetz ? GG), which demands a high degree of legal certainty. Accordingly, a charge may at any rate not be worded so vaguely that this makes the examination of bars to extradition impossible. In European Arrest Warrant proceedings as well, which serve to simplify extradition between the European Union Member States within an economic and judicial area that grows ever closer together, the non-constitutional courts must therefore examine as carefully as possible whether the specific charges describe punishable behaviour. They may not content themselves with merely performing a rough legal review.
In the instant case, the violation of the fundamental right to protection from extradition resulted, on the one hand, from the fact that the Munich Higher Regional Court did not deal with the essential question of whether the charges at issue, which date back to the years 2002 and 2003, might be statute-barred under German criminal law. Its cursory considerations regarding the lack of a statute of limitations for the prosecution of crimes to the detriment of the complainant do not live up to the constitutional requirements placed on the decision of a non-constitutional court. They are not viable and do not show that the legal situation has been examined. On the other hand, the Munich Higher Regional Court should also not have contented itself with merely stating that the extradition documents had been drafted in a sufficiently precise manner. In particular, it is not comprehensible that the charge, which merely describes, in a general fashion, the existence of business relations, and which is complemented by the allegation that in this context, fraud-related behaviour by the complainant, which is not explained any further, had taken place, was taken as the basis for the decision granting extradition.
URL: www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de
Datum: 14.10.2009 - 12:18 Uhr
Sprache: Deutsch
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