Overview

• The Federal Constitutional Court declined to admit a constitutional complaint (2 BvR 625/25) from a man convicted using Anom chats, finding no fundamental rights violation.
• The court said there is currently no constitutional basis for a blanket exclusion of Anom-derived communications in criminal proceedings.
• The defendant’s original 6.5-year sentence from the Mannheim Regional Court was later vacated by the Federal Court of Justice due to changes in cannabis law, and the case was remanded for resentencing.
• Judges noted it is known an EU member state hosted the iBot server and that the FBI decrypted and re-encrypted messages before forwarding them, and they ruled the lack of full public details does not make the data unusable.
• The Anom operation involved law enforcement reading roughly 20 million messages across 16 countries as part of a coordinated effort targeting organized crime.