another official who violates or allows a violation to be committed of the rules established by special law for the preservation of fish and other aquatic organisms and for the proper development of fish-breeding in the country, shall be punished by deprivation of liberty for up to three years or by probation, as well as by a fine from BGN one hundred to three hundred. (2) (Amended, SG No. 27/2009) Also punished by the same punishment shall be any person who lets flow or dumps into fish-breeding waters polluted water or substances which may harm the fish and the other aquatic organisms by their quantity or properties. Article 240 (1) (Amended and supplemented, SG No. 27/2009) A foreign citizen who enters with a navigating vessel the territorial waters of the Republic of Bulgaria in the Black Sea and practices fishing for economic purposes without a permit from the respective border authorities, if he is not subject to more severe punishment under another law, shall be punished by deprivation of liberty for up to three years, irrespective of his liability under the Fisheries and Aquaculture Act. (2) Where the above has been perpetrated by a group of foreign citizens who have been armed, the punishment shall be imprisonment for up to five years. (3) (Amended, SG No. 27/2009) The catch of fish, the other aquatic organisms caught, as well as the tools and means with which the crime has been committed, shall be confiscated in favour of the state. Article 240a (New, SG No. 101/2017) (1) A person who extracts natural resources without a concession being granted thereto or when the concession granted for extraction is suspended under Article 68 of the Subsurface Resources Act or on the grounds of a concluded contract, shall be punished with imprisonment of up to six years and a fine from BGN 1,000 to BGN 20,000. (2) The punishment under Paragraph 1 shall also be imposed on a person who keeps, stores, transports, processes or disposes of illegally obtained underground natural resources. (3) The punishment shall be imprisonment from two to eight years and a fine from BGN 5,000 to BGN 50,000 where: 1. the object of crime qualifies as a large quantity; 2. the act was committed within a protected territory or protected area within the meaning of the Biological Diversity Act; 3. technical means or a vehicle has been used for the commission of the act; 4. the act was committed through the use of a document with untrue content, a false or a counterfeited document; 5. the act was committed by one or more persons who have conspired in advance; 6. the act was committed with the participation of an official who has availed himself/herself of his/her official position; 7. the act was committed by a person who is systematically engaged in such activity; 8. the act was committed repeatedly. (4) The punishment shall be imprisonment from three to ten years and a fine from BGN 10,000 to BGN 100,000 where: 1. the object of the crime qualifies as a large quantity and the case is particularly severe; 2. the act was committed by an individual acting on the orders or in execution of a decision of an organised criminal group; 3. the act was committed in the conditions of a dangerous repeat offence. (5) In minor cases under Paragraphs 1 and 2 the punishment shall be imprisonment of up