Key legal question
Whether mutual legal assistance was barred for lack of dual criminality because the case concerned a fiscal offence.
Extracted holding
Assistance was not barred because the facts supported qualifying the conduct as tax fraud (Abgabebetrug) under Swiss law.
Extracted reasoning
The request described forged contracts, false bookkeeping entries, and a grossly organized scheme amounting to deceptive conduct and sufficient indications of arglist.