for five to fifteen years, whereas the court may also rule confiscation of up to one half of the
culprit's property.
(2) (Amended and supplemented, SG No. 89/1986, amended, SG No. 10/1993,
supplemented, SG No. 50/1995) For robbery of objects:
1. occurring with severe or medium bodily injury followed by death;
2. occurring with murder or an attempt at murder;
3. in particularly large amounts, if the perpetrator was armed,
(amended, SG No. 153/1998) the punishment shall be imprisonment for fifteen to twenty
years, life imprisonment or life imprisonment without a chance of commuting. The court may
also rule confiscation of the whole or part of the culprit's property.
Article 200
For preparation for robbery under Article 198 the punishment shall be imprisonment for up
to two years, and under Article 199 - imprisonment for up to three years.
Section III
Embezzlements
Article 201
(Supplemented, SG No. 28/1982, amended, SG No. 10/1993, supplemented, SG No.
50/1995; Decision No. 19 of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Bulgaria, SG No.
97/1995)
An official who appropriates from another sums of money, objects or other valuables,
deposited with him in his capacity or entrusted to him for safekeeping and management, and
disposes with them to his own interest or to the personal interest of another, shall be punished for
embezzlement by official, by imprisonment for up to eight years, and the court may also rule
confiscation of up to one half of the culprit's property and deprive him of rights under Article 37
(1), sub-paragraphs 6 and 7.
Article 202
(1) For embezzlement by official the punishment shall be imprisonment for one to ten
years:
1. where for the purpose of facilitating it yet another crime has been committed, for which
the law does not provide more severe punishment;
2. (amended, SG No. 28/1982) if the embezzlement has been perpetrated by two or more
persons who have conspired in advance.
(2) For embezzlement by official the punishment shall be imprisonment from three to
fifteen years:
1. (amended, SG No. 92/2002) if it is on a large scale,
2. (amended, SG No. 92/2002) if it constitutes dangerous recidivism or
3. (new, SG No. 92/2002) where the funds appropriated come from funds, which are the
property of the European Union or which have been granted by the European Union to the
Bulgarian State.
(3) (Supplemented, SG No. 28/1982, amended, SG No. 92/2002, effective 1.01.2005 amended, SG No. 26/2004, effective 1.01.2004, SG No. 103/2004, effective 1.01.2005) In the