Bulgarian State used to co-finance projects financed with resources from said funds, the
punishment shall be imprisonment from two to eight years.
Article 249
(Amended and supplemented, SG No. 89/1986, amended, SG No. 92/2002, SG No.
75/2006)
(1) (Amended, SG No. 27/2009) A person who uses an instrument of payment or data from
an instrument of payment without consent by the holder thereof, if the act does not constitute a
graver crime, shall be punished by imprisonment from 2 to eight years and a fine of up to the
double amount of proceeds.
(2) A person who uses an instrument of payment issued in the Republic of Bulgaria or
abroad without full coverage of the sum for which the instrument has been used, shall be
punished by imprisonment from one to six years and a fine of up to the double amount of
proceeds.
(3) Anyone who prepares, installs or makes us of a technical facility in order to obtain
information about the content of an instrument of payment shall be punished by imprisonment
from one to eight years and a fine of up to the double amount of proceeds.
(4) The same punishment shall also be imposed on the person who stores or provides
information under Paragraph 3 to another.
Article 250
(1) (Amended, SG No. 95/1975, amended and supplemented, SG No. 28/1982, SG No.
89/1986, repealed, SG No. 10/1993, new, SG No. 50/1995, previous text of Article 250, SG No.
21/2000) A person who transfers amounts abroad through a bank, using a false, forged document
or a document with untrue contents, shall be punished by imprisonment for one to ten years and
by a fine equal to the double amount of the transfer.
(2) (New, SG No. 21/2000, repealed, SG No. 75/2006).
Article 251
(Repealed, SG No. 10/1993, new, SG No. 50/1995)
(1) (Amended, SG No. 74/2015, SG No. 101/2017) A person who fails to fulfil the
obligation to declare money, precious metals, precious stones and products made with or from
them and where these are carried across the Bulgarian border which is a European Union
external border, and where the value of the object of the crime is of particularly large amount,
shall be punished by imprisonment for up to five years or by a fine in the amount of one-fifth of
the object of the crime.
(2) The object of the crime shall be confiscated in favour of the state, and where it is
missing or it has been appropriated, its equivalent value shall be adjudged.
Article 252
(Amended and supplemented, SG No. 28/1982, repealed, SG No. 10/1993, new, SG No.
50/1995)
(1) (Amended, SG No. 62/1997, supplemented, SG No. 23/2009, effective 1.11.2009) A
person who concludes, without the due licence, banking, insurance or other financial transactions
by occupation as well as payment services, shall be punished by imprisonment for three to five
years and by confiscation of up to 1/2 of the property of the perpetrator.