Key legal question
Whether the defendant's failure to remit the broker payments constituted multiple qualified breach of trust under former Art. 159 aStGB.
Extracted holding
No. The payments were post-transaction gifts or rewards that did not affect the defendant's conduct of the transactions; mere non-remittance did not amount to criminal breach of trust.
Extracted reasoning
Breach of trust requires a misuse of managerial powers in the management of another's assets and a resulting asset injury. The court held that the defendant's conduct involved only a later receipt and retention of benefits, not a treacherous exercise of asset-management powers, and that the bank's interests were not shown to have been harmed in the relevant sense.