It is about unauthorized arms deliveries to South America: A German arms manufacturer should therefore dig deep into their pockets – now the BGH has confirmed a judgment in the last instance.
The court-ordered collection of 11.1 million euros from the weapons manufacturer Sig Sauer is legal. The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) on Thursday largely rejected the appeal of three of the company’s companies against a judgment by the Kiel Regional Court (Az. 3 StR 518/19).
Over 38,000 Sig Sauer pistols were delivered to the National Police in Colombia via the USA. Arms exports there were not permitted under German law. At the time, the Federal Foreign Office classified the human rights situation in the country as serious.
In April 2019, the district court imposed suspended sentences and high monetary requirements on three defendants, including managing directors of the Eckernförde location, for the unauthorized delivery of pistols. It considered it established that they were responsible for the export of more than 47,000 SP 2022 pistols to a sister company in the US between 2009 and 2011. Of these weapons, over 38,000 were resold in Colombia.
The appeal before the BGH was only directed against the collection of 11.1 million euros – according to the court’s calculation, that was the revenue from the illegal business. 7.4 million euros of this went to the German Sig-Sauer companies.
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