Key legal question
Whether statements made in the tax procedure could be used in the criminal tax-fraud case.
Extracted holding
The statements were not excluded in principle; the nemo tenetur principle did not bar use on the present record, though the appellate court had to clarify the exact procedural circumstances.
Extracted reasoning
Information from the tax reassessment procedure is not generally unusable in tax-fraud proceedings unless it was obtained under coercive pressure that would also bar its use in tax-evasion cases. The court found no shown coercion here, but the lower court had not fully examined all relevant circumstances.