measures or balances, shall be punished by imprisonment for up to two years or by probation. (2) By the same penalty shall be punished: a) a person who cheats a buyer by admixing foreign substances or worsening the quality of the goods in another way; b) a person who cheats a customer about the quality of the goods, materials or services. (3) (Amended, SG No. 28/1982, SG No. 10/1993, SG No. 27/2009) Where by one or more acts under the preceding paragraph damages of up to BGN one hundred have been caused, the punishment shall be a fine from BGN one hundred to three hundred, imposed administratively. (4) (New, SG No. 95/1975, amended, SG No. 28/1982, SG No. 10/1993) If the act under the preceding paragraph has been committed after an administrative punishment under the same paragraph has been imposed upon the person by ruling that has entered into force, and less than one year has elapsed from the commission of the first violation, the punishment shall be imprisonment for up to one year or probation, or a fine from BGN one hundred to three hundred. (5) (New, SG No. 95/1975) In the cases where, the court determines under the preceding paragraph a punishment by imprisonment, it may also rule deprivation of rights under Article 37 (1), sub-paragraphs 6 and 7. Article 233 (Amended and supplemented, SG No. 28/1982, amended, SG No. 89/1986, amended and supplemented, SG No. 81/1990, repealed, SG No. 10/1993, new, SG No. 102/1995) (1) (Amended and supplemented, SG No. 92/2002, amended, SG No. 26/2004, SG No. 38/2007) A person who, without a relevant, license, registration or permit, exports, imports, transfers, transits, acts as intermediary in transactions with weaponry or goods or technologies with dual application, as well as where such activities are carried out in breach of prohibitions, restrictions or sanctions, - imposed by the Security Council of the United Nations Organisation, by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe or by the European Union, specified in an instrument of the Council of Ministers or stemming from an international agreement to which the Republic of Bulgaria is a party - shall be punished by imprisonment for up to six years and by a fine from up to BGN 200,000. (2) (Amended, SG No. 92/2002) For particularly grave cases under paragraph (1) the punishment shall be imprisonment for three (3) to eight (8) years and a fine from up to BGN 500,000. (3) (Amended, SG No. 92/2002) In minor cases under paragraph (1) the punishment shall be a fine from up to BGN 20,000. (4) (Amended, SG No. 92/2002, SG No. 26/2004, SG No. 38/2007) The weaponry or the goods, or the technologies with dual application, which make the object of crime, shall be confiscated in favour of the state notwithstanding their ownership, and where they are missing or have been appropriated, the equivalent of their value shall be adjudicated, determined on the grounds of the foreign trade contract. Article 234 (Amended and supplemented, SG No. 26/1973, amended, SG No. 28/1982, SG No. 89/1986, repealed, SG No. 1/1991, new, SG No. 107/1996) (1) (Amended, SG No. 92/2002, SG No. 26/2010, SG No. 7/2019) A person who distributes or stores excise goods without an excise tax banderol sticker where such banderol is required by the law shall, in non-negligible cases, be punished by imprisonment from one to six