The lack of figures has far-reaching consequences, according to top specialists: the Federal Parliament receives no answers, every scientific study on criminal law and companies remains unfinished, public prosecutors prosecute and judges convict without a frame of reference, companies can believe that the chances of being caught are small, the public prosecutor has no figures to substantiate a policy and democratic supervision of the functioning of justice is excluded.
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