cases of the preceding paragraphs, the court shall deprive the perpetrator of the rights under
Article 37, Paragraph 1, sub-paragraphs 6 and 7. The court may also rule confiscation pursuant to
paragraph (1) of up to one half, and under paragraph (2) - of the whole or part of the culprit's
property.
Article 203
(1) (Amended, SG No. 89/1986, SG No. 75/2006) For embezzlement by official on
particularly large scale, constituting a particularly grave case, the punishment shall be
imprisonment from ten to twenty years.
(2) (Amended, SG No. 92/2002, effective 1.01.2005 - amended, SG No. 26/2004, effective
1.01.2004) The court shall rule confiscation of the whole or part of the property of the culprit and
shall deprive him of the rights under Article 37, paragraph 1, sub-paragraphs 6 and 7.
Article 204
In minor cases of embezzlement by official the punishment shall be:
a) (amended, SG No. 28/1982, SG No. 10/1993) under Article 201 - imprisonment for up
to one year or probation, or a fine from BGN one hundred to three hundred
b) under Article 202, paragraph (1) - imprisonment for up to two years or probation.
Article 205
(1) If the embezzled money, objects or valuables are returned or replaced prior to the
conclusion of the judicial inquiry at the first instance court, the punishment shall be:
1. (amended, SG No. 28/1982) in the cases under Article 201 - imprisonment for up to five
years;
2. (amended, SG No. 28/1982) in the cases under Article 202, paragraph (1) imprisonment for one to seven years;
3. in the cases of Article 202, paragraph (2) - imprisonment for three to ten years;
4. (amended, SG No. 28/1982, SG No. 89/1986) in the cases of Article 203 - imprisonment
from eight to twenty years;
5. (amended, SG No. 28/1982, SG No. 10/1993) in the cases of Article 204, letter "a" probation or a fine from BGN one hundred to three hundred Bulgarian Leva;
6. in the cases of Article 204, letter "b" - imprisonment for up to six months or probation.
(2) (Supplemented, SG No. 28/1982) In the cases of sub-paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of the
preceding paragraph the court shall also rule deprivation of rights under Article 37 (1),
sub-paragraphs 6 and 7, and in the cases of sub-paragraph 3 may rule confiscation of up to one
half of the property of the culprit, and in the cases under sub-paragraph 4 it shall rule
confiscation of part or the whole of the property.
Article 206
(1) (Amended, SG No. 28/1982, SG No. 10/1993, SG No. 26/2010) A person who
unlawfully appropriates a movable object of another, which is in his possession or which has
been left with him for safekeeping, shall be punished for embezzlement by imprisonment from
one to six years.
(2) (Supplemented, SG No. 92/2002) Embezzlement shall also be considered to occur
where part of the object belongs to the perpetrator, as well as where the object is the property of
the perpetrator, but it has been burdened to become a pledge and perpetrator has illegally