Article 294
(1) (Amended, SG No. 62/1997) A person who helps the perpetrator of a crime to avert or
avoid criminal prosecution, or to remain unpunished, without coming to an agreement with such
person prior to the perpetration of the crime itself, shall be punished for harbouring a person by
imprisonment for up to five years, but by punishment not more severe than the one provided for
the person harboured.
(2) Where the act has been perpetrated for the purpose of a material benefit, the
punishment shall be imprisonment for up to five years, but not more severe than the one
provided for the harboured person.
(3) The above provisions shall not apply to spouses, relatives of descending and ascending
line, brothers and sisters of the harboured person and their spouses.
(4) (New, SG No. 62/1997, amended, SG No. 27/2009) Where the perpetrator is a judge, a
prosecutor, an examining magistrate or a police authority, an investigating police officer, the
punishment shall be imprisonment from two to eight years.
Article 295
(Amended, SG No. 50/1995)
A body of authority who, for the purpose of exempting another person from punishment or
of delaying the execution of punishment, fails to put into execution a sentence that has entered
into force, should that body be officially obliged to do the necessary for enforcing the sentence,
shall be punished by imprisonment for up to six years, whereas the court may deprive that body
of the right under Article 37 (1), sub paragraph 6, or by probation.
Article 296
(Amended, SG No. 92/2002)
(1) (Supplemented, SG No. 27/2009, amended, SG No. 102/2009, effective 22.12.2009,
supplemented, SG No. 41/2015, effective 6.07.2015) A person who obstructs or prevents the
enforcement of a judgment or does not observe an order for protection against domestic violence
or a European protection order in any way whatsoever shall be punished by imprisonment of up
to three years or a fine of up to BGN 5,000.
(2) A person who, for the purpose of obstructing or preventing enforcement of a court
judgment destroys, damages, conceals or appropriates an object to which such judgment refers,
shall be punished by imprisonment for up to three years and a fine from BGN one thousand to
ten thousand, provided the perpetrated act does not constitute a graver crime.
(3) (New, SG No. 60/2011) Anyone who violates a prohibition to attend sports events in
Bulgaria or abroad within the period of the relevant prohibition imposed under the Act on
Protection of Public Order upon Conduct of Sports Events, after having been penalized for the
same violation as per an administrative procedure, shall be punished with imprisonment for up to
three years or probation.
(4) (New, SG No. 16/2019) If the crime under Paragraph 1 was committed, the punishment
shall be imprisonment from one to five years.
Article 297
(1) A prisoner who escapes shall be punished by imprisonment for up to three years.
(2) Where for the purpose of escape the prisoner has resorted to undermining, pulling