to one hundred thousand
(3) (New, SG No. 95/1975, amended, SG No. 89/1986, SG No. 10/1993, repealed, SG No.
50/1995, new, SG No. 21/2000) A person who carries across the border of this country, without
being duly authorised, precursors or installations and materials for the production of drugs shall
be punished by imprisonment for two to ten years and by a fine from BGN fifty thousand up to
one hundred thousand.
(4) (New, SG No. 89/1986, amended, SG No. 10/1993, renumbered from Paragraph 4, SG
No. 50/1995, amended and supplemented, SG No. 62/1997, renumbered from Paragraph 3,
amended, SG No. 21/2000) Where the object of contraband under the preceding paragraphs
comprises particularly great quantities and the case is particularly grave and where a person
under (f) of paragraph (1) is a customs official, the punishment shall: in the cases under
paragraph (1) - imprisonment for five to fifteen years and a fine from BGN fifty thousand up to
two hundred thousand, and in the cases under paragraphs (2) and (3) - imprisonment for fifteen
to twenty years and a fine from BGN two hundred thousand up to three hundred thousand.
(5) (Renumbered Paragraph 2, amended, SG No. 95/1975, supplemented, SG No. 28/1982,
renumbered from Paragraph 4, amended, SG No. 89/1986, renumbered from Paragraph 5,
amended, SG No. 50/1995, renumbered from Paragraph 4, amended, SG No. 21/2000, 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) In cases under paragraph
(1), sub-paragraphs (a), (d) and (e), as well as cases under paragraphs (2), (3) and (4), the court
may, instead of a fine, impose confiscation of part or the whole property of the culprit,
(6) (Renumbered from Paragraph 3, amended, SG No. 95/1975, supplemented, SG No.
28/1982, renumbered from Paragraph 5, SG No. 89/1986, amended, SG No. 10/1993,
renumbered from Paragraph 6, SG No. 50/1995, amended, SG No. 62/1997, renumbered from
Paragraph 5, amended, SG No. 21/2000) In minor cases under paragraphs (1), (2) and (3), the
punishment shall be a fine from one hundred to BGN three hundred, imposed under
administrative procedure.
(7) (Renumbered from Paragraph 4, SG No. 95/1975, renumbered from Paragraph 6,
supplemented, SG No. 89/1986, renumbered from Paragraph 7, SG No. 50/1995, renumbered
from Paragraph 6, SG No. 21/2000) The object of the contraband shall be confiscated in favour
of the state, regardless of whose ownership it may be, and should it be missing or appropriated,
the equivalent amount shall be adjudged at the respective state retail prices.
(8) (Renumbered from Paragraph 5, SG No. 95/1975, renumbered from Paragraph 7, SG
No. 89/1986, renumbered from Paragraph 8, SG No. 50/1995, renumbered from Paragraph 7, SG
No. 21/2000) The transport or carrying means, used for transportation or carrying the goods
subject of contraband, shall be confiscated in favour of the state even where it does not belong to
the perpetrator, except where its value obviously does not correspond to the gravity of the crime.
(9) (New, SG No. 41/1985, renumbered from Paragraph 8, amended, SG No. 89/1986,
renumbered from Paragraph 9, amended, SG No. 50/1995, renumbered from Paragraph 8,
amended, SG No. 21/2000) For preparations under paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) the punishment
shall be imprisonment for at most five years. Paragraph (7) shall apply to such cases.
Article 242a
(New, SG No. 21/2000, supplemented, SG No. 26/2004)
A person who carries across the border of this country goods with documents for transit
transport and, in violation of the established procedure, unloads the goods on its territory, shall