from BGN one hundred to three hundred.
(2) (Amended, SG No. 103/2004, effective 1.01.2005) If the culpable person has been
aware of the fact that the patient or woman in childbirth were in a dangerous situation, the
punishment shall be imprisonment for up to one year or probation.
(3) (Amended, SG No. 28/1982, SG No. 10/1993, SG No. 103/2004, effective 1.01.2005)
A person who, being obliged to render assistance to a sick person, does not render him such
assistance without good reasons, shall be punished by probation for up to six months or by a fine
from BGN one hundred to three hundred.
Section IV
Kidnapping and Unlawful Imprisonment
(Title amended, SG No. 50/1995)
Article 142
(New, SG No. 50/1995)
(1) (Amended and supplemented, SG No. 92/2002, amended, SG No. 27/2009, SG No.
26/2010) A person who kidnaps another person shall be punished by imprisonment from three to
ten years.
(2) (Amended, SG No. 26/2010) The punishment shall be imprisonment from seven to
fifteen years if:
1. the perpetrator has been armed;
2. the act has been committed by two or more persons;
3. (amended, SG No. 62/1997) the kidnapped person has been a pregnant woman or under
18 years of age;
4. the kidnapped person has been entitled to international protection;
5. the act has been perpetrated with regard to two or more persons;
5a. (new, SG No. 16/2019) the act has been perpetrated in a situation of domestic violence;
6. (new, SG No. 62/1997) the act has been perpetrated by a person engaged in security
business, by an employee of an organisation carrying out security and insurance activities, by a
person who acts on order of such an organisation or presents himself as acting on such order, by
a person on the staff of the Ministry of Interior or a person who presents himself as such;
7. (new, SG No. 62/1997, supplemented, SG No. 92/2002) the kidnapping has been carried
out with a venal goal in mind or for the purpose of taking the person over the borders of this
country;
8. (new, SG No. 62/1997, amended, SG No. 92/2002) the act has been perpetrated by a
person who acts at the orders or in implementing a decision of an organization or a group under
Article 321a or of an organized criminal group.
(3) (Amended, SG No. 26/2010) The punishment shall be imprisonment from ten to
twenty years or life imprisonment, as well as confiscation of part or all of the property of the
culprit if:
1. the act is repeated or constitutes dangerous recidivism
2. the act resulted in considerable harmful consequences.
3. the kidnapped person was treated with particular cruelty;
4. the act was committed in a manner particularly painful or dangerous for the health of the
kidnapped person;