BULGARIA - PENAL PROCEDURE CODE

Part one. GENERAL RULES

Chapter seven. ACCUSED

Section II. Restraining Measure and Other Measures of Procedural Compulsion

Art. 63. (1) The restraining measure detention in custody shall be taken when a grounded assumption that the accused has commuted a crime, which is punishable with imprisonment or other stricter punishment, and the evidence on the case indicate that a real danger that the accused may abscond or commit a crime exists.

(2) Should the opposite not be found from the evidence under the case, the danger under Para 1 shall be there upon the initial disposition of detention in custody, when:

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3. the person has been involved as accused in a crime for which a punishment of at lest 10 years imprisonment or other more severe punishment is provided.