'Presenting false or forged evidence' in document 'Bulgaria - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

BULGARIA – CRIMINAL CODE

SPECIAL PART

Chapter Eight - CRIMES AGAINST ACTIVITIES OF STATE BODIES AND PUBLIC ORGANISATIONS AND PERSONS PERFORMING PUBLIC FUNCTIONS

Section III - Crimes Against Justice

Article 287a

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 deprivation of liberty for one to five years and a fine from BGN five hundred to one thousand.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 70
Offences against the administration of justice
1. The Court shall have jurisdiction over the following offences against its administration of justice when committed intentionally:
(b) Presenting evidence that the party knows is false or forged