Umfang, Grenzen und Verwertbarkeit compliancebasierter unternehmensinterner Ermittlungen

Essentially, the work deals with the question of the criminal procedure prohibition on using the findings from internal, and thus private, investigations. It provides answers to many open questions: the question of whether there is a duty under employment law to make statements in the context of internal investigations; the admissibility of internal investigations; legal duties to carry out internal investigations; the limits of substantive law; the right to refuse to testify and give evidence concerning internal investigation results in the context of a criminal case; the question of whether the records of an internal investigation are exempt from seizure; the duties of internal investigators to provide instructions and keep proper records; and the inadmissibility of evidence in breach of the nemo tenetur principle and the right to a fair trial.