expropriated, their equivalent shall be awarded; b) objects belonging to the culprit, which were subject of intentional crime - in the cases expressly provided in the Special Part of this Code. (2) (New, SG No. 28/1982) Confiscated in favour of the state shall also be: a) articles that have been subject or means of the crime, the possession of which is forbidden, and b) (amended, SG No. 7/2019) direct or indirect benefits gained through the crime, if they are not subject to return or restoration; where the benefit is missing or is expropriated, its equivalent shall be awarded. (3) (New, SG No. 7/2019) Within the meaning of Paragraph 2, letter "b": 1. a direct benefit shall be any economic gain, occurring as a direct consequence of the crime; 2. an indirect benefit shall be any economic gain, occurring as a result of disposal with the direct gain, as well as any property obtained as a result of subsequent full or partial transformation of a direct benefit, including when it was mixed with a property obtained from lawful sources; the property up to the value of the included benefit shall be subject to confiscation, including the occurring increases of the property, if they are directly linked to the disposal or transformation of the direct benefit and the inclusion of the direct benefit in the property. Chapter Five METING OUT OF PUNISHMENTS Article 54 (1) The court shall mete out punishments within the limits provided by law for the crime committed, guided by the provisions of the general part of this Code and taking into consideration the following: the degree of social danger of the act and the perpetrator, the motives for crime perpetration, and other attenuating or aggravating circumstances. (2) The attenuating circumstances shall condition the infliction of a milder punishment, and the aggravating ones of a severer punishment. Article 55 (1) In case of exceptional or of a great number of attenuating circumstances, where even the mildest punishment provided by law proves disproportionately severe, the court: 1. shall fix a punishment under the lowest limit; 2. shall substitute: a) (amended, SG No. 153/1998) life imprisonment for imprisonment for a term from fifteen to twenty years; b) (amended, SG No. 28/1982, SG No. 10/1993, SG No. 62/1997, amended and supplemented, SG No. 92/2002 - effective 1.01.2005, with respect to the punishment of probation, amended, SG No. 26/2004, effective 1.01.2004, SG No. 103/2004, effective 1.01.2005) imprisonment, where the lowest limit has not been specified - for probation, and with respect to minors - for probation or public censure; c) (amended, SG No. 28/1982, SG No. 10/1993, SG No. 62/1997, SG No. 92/2002, SG No.