Section III Crimes Against Justice Article 286 (1) (Amended, SG No. 62/1997) A person who falsely accuses, before the respective state authorities, another person of a crime, knowing that such person is innocent, or who produces false evidence against such person, shall be punished for false accusation by imprisonment for one to six years and by public censure. (2) (Repealed, renumbered from Paragraph 3, amended, SG No. 62/1997) If penal proceedings have been started against the falsely accused person, the punishment shall be imprisonment for one to ten years. Article 287 (Amended, SG No. 26/2004, SG No. 75/2006) An official who, in the course or on the occasion of discharging his service, acting alone or through another, takes unlawful coercive action in respect of an indicted individual, a witness or an expert witness, in order to extort confession, testimony, a conclusion or information therefrom, shall be punished by imprisonment from three to ten and by withdrawal of rights under Article 37, paragraph 1, sub-paragraphs 6 and 7. Article 287a (New, SG No. 62/1997) A person who, for the purposes of misleading the judicial authorities: 1. prepares untrue technical records or forges real ones; 2. destroys records of parts thereof, collects and sorts the record data and thus creates untrue notion of the respective circumstances; 3. uses forged technical records; 4. uses unlawfully the information acquired by means of special intelligence devices, shall be punished by imprisonment for one to five years and a fine from BGN five hundred to one thousand. Article 288 (Amended, SG No. 50/1995) Bodies of state authority who fail to fulfil in due time the obligations imposed thereon by their respective office in connection with criminal prosecution, or who in some other way frustrate such proceedings for the purpose of ridding another of punishment which is due by law, shall be punished by imprisonment for one to six years and by deprivation of the right under Article 37 (1), sub-paragraph 6. Article 289 (Amended, SG No. 62/1997, SG No. 75/2006, SG No. 26/2010) A person who entices official of the investigating bodies or of the prosecutor office or of the judicial authorities to violate their official duty in connection with the administration of justice, shall be punished by imprisonment from one to six years.