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The substantive Criminal law is regulated first of all in the criminal code called Strafgesetzbuch (StGB), the procedural law in the code of criminal procedure called Strafprozessordnung (StPO). Furthermore there are numerous main- and supplementary laws which also contain penal provisions. Corporate law, especially, often contains special penal provisions at the end of the legal codes. The imposition of penal sanctions always requires for each delinquency and each offence performance of the elements of the offence: acting with intent or negligence, unlawfulness (no grounds of justification) and guilt.

In special circumstances proof must be presented that laws of the German nation apply, that there is a demand for a penalty, that there is a time limitation, and so on.For most entrepreneurs the offences regarding bodily harm are not important. More important is the so-called white-collar-criminality. Just occasionally it can be necessary to consider offences like molestation (Notigung, Ass 240 StGB) or menace (Ass 241 StGB). Whoever threatens a person without a legal reason by violence/force or a vulnerable evil to an action, sufferance or omission, is punishable by law if the use of violence/force or threat of evil is reprehensible. So, harsh words in business are sometimes not easy to evaluate, but often may not have legal consequences.

When a person menaces another person with the intention to prejudice the property of the other person to make himself or a third person rich comes a blackmail/extortion (Erpressung) into consideration. For some businesses larceny (Diebstahl, AssAss 242 - 248c StGB) is a big problem. Larceny is the punishable act of a person who takes away a foreign movable good to appropriate unlawfully as his own or a third person without having a legal reason. Fencing comes into consideration when dealing with stolen goods, or buying or selling stolen goods.

Inside the businesses it can come to misappropriation (Unterschlagungen). Misappropriation (Ass 246 StGB) is similar to theft, but it is enough when a person appropriates a foreign moving good which is already her possession. An offence with a higher penalty is embezzlement (Untreue, Ass 266 StGB). The offence is complete when the holder uses the property of the owner for any purpose other than that intended or misuse the capacity to dispose of one's property. This offence can be important to business managers, authorized signatories or contributors of capital. « mai multe referate din Drept