including any crime against another country - enters Bulgaria across its border or illegally resides
in it.
(8) (Renumbered from Paragraph 3, SG No. 33/2011, effective 27.05.2011, renumbered
from Paragraph 4, SG No. 74/2015) The object of the crime under Paragraph 2 above shall be
confiscated to the benefit of the State, and where this object may not be found or has been
expropriated, payment of its equivalent sum in cash shall be ruled.
Article 109
(1) (Amended, SG No. 99/1989, SG No. 92/2002, SG No. 75/2006) A person who forms
or leads an organisation or group, which has set itself the aim of committing crimes under the
present Chapter, shall be punished by deprivation of liberty for up to twelve years, but not more
than the punishment provided for the respective crime.
(2) (Amended, SG No. 92/2002, supplemented, SG No. 75/2006) A person who is a
member of such an organisation or group shall be punished by deprivation of liberty for up to ten
years, but not more than the punishment provided for the respective crime.
(3) (New, SG No. 33/2011, effective 27.05.2011) When the organisation or group is aimed
at committing a crime under Article 108a, the punishment shall be:
1. imprisonment from ten to twenty years, in cases within the scope of Paragraph 1;
2. imprisonment from two to ten years, in cases within the scope of Paragraph 2;
(4) (Supplemented, SG No. 95/1975, amended, SG No. 92/2002, supplemented, SG No.
75/2006, renumbered from Paragraph 3, SG No. 33/2011, effective 27.05.2011) A participant in
the organisation or group who, of his own accord gives himself up to the authorities and
discloses all the information he/she has available about the organisation or group and thus
considerably facilitates detection of, and collection of evidence with regard to, crimes by it
committed under this Chapter, shall be punished in accordance with Article 55.
(5) (Amended, SG No. 92/2002, supplemented, SG No. 75/2006, renumbered from
Paragraph 4, SG No. 33/2011, effective 27.05.2011) A participant in the organisation or group
who, of his own accord gives himself up to the authorities and reveals the existence of the
organisation or group before this individual or the group has committed another crime under this
Chapter, shall not be punished.
Article 110
(Amended, SG No. 99/1989, SG No. 92/2002)
(1) (Previous text of Article 110, SG No. 74/2015, supplemented, SG No. 101/2017) For
preparatory arrangements relating to a crime under Articles 95, 96, 99, 106, 107, and 108a (1), (6)
and (7), the punishment shall be imprisonment for up to six years.
(2) (New, SG No. 74/2015) Any foreign national who is making preparatory arrangements,
in the territory of Bulgaria, to commit a crime under Article 108a(1) abroad, shall be punished by
imprisonment for up to six years, but for no longer than the punishment stipulated in Article
108a(1).
Article 111
(Repealed, SG No. 99/1989).
Article 112
(Amended, SG No. 41/1985, repealed, SG No. 99/1989).