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Money Laundering and Surveillance of Telecommunication – The Recent Decision of the Bundesgerichtshof (BGH – Federal Court of Justice)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Hans Kudlich  and
Florian Melloh

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The possibility of monitoring telecommunications pursuant to § 100a of the Strafprozeßordnung (StPO – Criminal Procedure Code) existed in Germany for the last 35 years. Nonetheless, the surveillance of telecommunications is still the subject of controversy and dispute; not only in connection with new forms of communications but also with regard to the extent and grounds of application in “normal” cases of telephone surveillance.

Type
Public Law
Information
German Law Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , 01 February 2004 , pp. 123 - 133
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Copyright © 2004 by German Law Journal GbR 

References

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