notes, coins or other pieces of currency or payment instruments under Article 243 (2), shall be punished by imprisonment for up to six years. (2) (Supplemented, SG No. 24/2005) A participant in the association who, before the forgery has been accomplished (if the association has been formed for such a purpose), or before the distribution of the forged currency has started (if the association has been formed for such a purpose) or before accomplishing production of the bank notes and coins referred to in Paragraph (3), renounces his participation in the act and informs the authorities, shall not be punished. (3) (Amended and supplemented, SG No. 24/2005, amended, SG No. 27/2009, SG No. 101/2017) A person who makes, acquires, keeps or conceals objects, materials or tools, computer programs or security features of the bank notes and coins of which he knows that they were intended for or that they have been used for the forging of bank notes, coins or securities or payment instruments under Article 243 (2), shall be punished by imprisonment for up to six years. Article 247 (Amended, SG No. 28/1982, corrected, SG No. 31/1982, amended, SG No. 10/1993, repealed, SG No. 26/2010). Article 248 (1) (Amended, SG No. 28/1982, SG No. 10/1993) A person who knows that a crime is being committed under Articles 243 and 244, and fails to notify the authorities thereof, shall be punished by probation or by a fine from BGN one hundred to three hundred. (2) The preceding paragraph shall not be applied with respect to spouses, to relatives of descending and ascending line, to brothers and sisters of the perpetrator and to their spouses. Article 248a (New, SG No. 75/2006) (1) (Amended, SG No. 26/2010) A person who, for the purpose of obtaining credit facility, submits untrue information, shall be punished by imprisonment for up to three years and a fine from BGN 1,000 to BGN 5,000. (2) (Amended and supplemented, SG No. 101/2017) The same punishment shall be imposed on a person who submits any untrue information or who withholds any information in violation of an obligation to disclose such information in order to receive financial resources from funds belonging to the European Union or such provided by the European Union to the Bulgarian State, as well as financial resources belonging to the Bulgarian State and used for co-financing of projects funded with resources from said funds. (3) (Amended, SG No. 26/2010, amended and supplemented, SG No. 101/2017) Where the deed act under paragraphs 1 and 2 has been committed by a manager r representative of a legal person or by a trader, the punishment shall be imprisonment from one to six years and a fine from BGN 2,000 to 10,000. (4) The punishment under Paragraph (3) shall also be imposed on the official who has given permission for the credit facility or who released the resources referred to in Paragraph (2), provided he knew that the information submitted was untrue. (5) (New, SG No. 27/2009, amended, SG No. 26/2010, SG No. 101/2017) If, as a result of the act under Paragraph 2, resources are received from funds belonging to the European Union or provided by the European Union to the Bulgarian State, as well as resources belonging to the