{"id":8107,"date":"2026-07-28T12:52:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T12:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nfp-drugs.bg\/en\/?p=8107"},"modified":"2026-07-28T13:14:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:14:34","slug":"perpetrators-of-drug-related-crimes-registered-by-the-ministry-of-interior-in-bulgaria-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nfp-drugs.bg\/en\/perpetrators-of-drug-related-crimes-registered-by-the-ministry-of-interior-in-bulgaria-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Perpetrators of drug-related crimes identified by the Ministry of Interior in Bulgaria in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Prevalence of psychoactive substance use<\/a>
Prevalence of medication use
Prevalence of drug use<\/a>
Drug prevention
Treatment supply<\/a>
Treatment demand
Health consequences<\/a>
Harm reduction<\/a>
Drug-related crimes<\/a>
Drug market<\/a>
Drug use and prison<\/a>
Monitoring of publications<\/a>
Attitudes to legal framework changes<\/a><\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Art. 242, para. 2-3 – contraband of drugs
Art. 354\u0430 – production, possession, distribution, transportation of drugs
Art. 354b – persuasion or assistance to other people to use drugs
Art. 354c – planting or cultivation of narcotic plants<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Number of perpetrators of drug-related crimes identified by the Ministry of Interior in Bulgaria in 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Classification under the Penal Code<\/strong><\/td>Art. 242,
para. 2-3<\/strong><\/td>		Art. 354\u0430<\/strong><\/td>Art. 354b<\/strong><\/td>Art. 354c<\/strong><\/td>Total number<\/strong> <\/td><\/tr>
Total number of identified perpetrators<\/td>6<\/strong><\/td>5613<\/strong><\/td>1<\/strong><\/td>214<\/strong><\/td>5740<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
of them:<\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/td><\/tr>
females<\/td>1<\/td>572<\/td>0<\/td>22<\/td>587<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Bulgarians<\/td>6<\/td>5614<\/td>1<\/td>214<\/td>5740<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
foreign citizens<\/td>2<\/td>99<\/td>0<\/td>12<\/td>107<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
minors (under 14 years of age)<\/td>0<\/td>16<\/td>0<\/td>0<\/td>16<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
juveniles (aged 14 \u2013 17)<\/td>0<\/td>514<\/td>0<\/td>3<\/td>517<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
aged 18 \u2013 30<\/td>2<\/td>2353<\/td>1<\/td>36<\/td>2372<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
aged 31 \u2013 40<\/td>0<\/td>1723<\/td>0<\/td>72<\/td>1760<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
over 40 years of age<\/td>4<\/td>1007<\/td>0<\/td>103<\/td>1075<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
unemployed<\/td>0<\/td>1365<\/td>0<\/td>52<\/td>1393<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
do not study or work<\/td>0<\/td>79<\/td>0<\/td>0<\/td>79<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
students<\/td>0<\/td>497<\/td>1<\/td>12<\/td>505<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
illiterate<\/td>1<\/td>1727<\/td>0<\/td>54<\/td>1757<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
with primary school<\/td>0<\/td>142<\/td>0<\/td>4<\/td>143<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
with primary level of education<\/td>2<\/td>332<\/td>0<\/td>8<\/td>340<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
with secondary level of education<\/td>1<\/td>549<\/td>0<\/td>37<\/td>569<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
with higher education<\/td>0<\/td>35<\/td>0<\/td>2<\/td>37<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
with previous convictions<\/td>1<\/td>2198<\/td>1<\/td>71<\/td>2236<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
alcohol intoxicated<\/strong><\/td>0<\/strong><\/td>17<\/strong><\/td>0<\/strong><\/td>0<\/strong><\/td>17<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
with drug use<\/strong><\/td>0<\/strong><\/td>606<\/strong><\/td>0<\/strong><\/td>4<\/strong><\/td>610<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Source: Ministry of Interior<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prevalence of psychoactive substance usePrevalence of medication usePrevalence of drug useDrug preventionTreatment supplyTreatment demandHealth consequencesHarm reductionDrug-related crimesDrug marketDrug use and prisonMonitoring of publicationsAttitudes to legal framework changes Art. 242, para. 2-3 – contraband of drugsArt. 354\u0430 – production, possession, distribution, transportation of drugsArt. 354b – persuasion or assistance to other people to use drugsArt. 354c […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nfp-drugs.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nfp-drugs.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nfp-drugs.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nfp-drugs.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nfp-drugs.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8107"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nfp-drugs.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8117,"href":"https:\/\/www.nfp-drugs.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions\/8117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nfp-drugs.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nfp-drugs.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nfp-drugs.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}