An operator in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was convicted of bribery and incitement to embezzlement.
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The ammunition scandal at the Mobile Task Force of the Saxony State Criminal Police Office concerns the unlawful use of service ammunition as payment for private shooting training.
A shooting range operator in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has been sentenced to a fine at the Schwerin regional court because he accepted 3,000 rounds of cartridges from a Saxon police officer as payment for shooting training. The fine is 55 daily rates of 108 euros each, a court spokesman said. That results in 5,940 euros.
According to the spokesman, the verdict was incitement to embezzlement and bribery. It is not yet legally binding.
The Saxon official was sentenced last year to a fine of 10,800 euros for embezzlement and bribery. He is said to have secretly used the official ammunition from the Mobile Task Force's armory as payment for the shooting training at the private area near Güstrow, in which the command took part in 2018.
Ammunition scandal in Saxony
However, the ammunition scandal at the Mobile Task Force of the State Criminal Police Office will continue to concern the judiciary. The Federal Court of Justice partially overturned the verdict against the man. The federal judges ordered the Dresden regional court to re-examine to what extent the man had violated the weapons law. (Af.: BVerwG 5 StR 401/25)
The regional court denied a violation of the weapons law in this case. The transport of the ammunition to the shooting range in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was required for official reasons. That is why the weapons law does not apply to police officers.
The federal judges saw it differently. “In this specific case, the secret delivery of a total of 7,000 rounds of ammunition as payment for the training carried out and as a down payment for future shooting training did not constitute an official activity of the shooting trainer,” said the BGH.
In the indictment at the Schwerin regional court against the shooting range operator, he was accused of accepting 7,000 cartridges. However, according to the spokesman, the court was only able to establish that 3,000 rounds of ammunition had been received during the taking of evidence.
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Reassessment of the violation of the weapons law by the Dresden Regional Court.
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