Online Sexual Blackmail and Intimate Images

1. Extortion, i.e. demanding another person to hand over property or title in property or the right to use property by threatening to use violence against the victim or the victim’s close relative or to destroy or damage their property or to make public the information that may damage their reputation or otherwise damage substantially their rights, –

shall be punished by a fine or by imprisonment for a term of two to four years.

2. The same act committed:

a) jointly by more than one person;

b) repeatedly;

c) for obtaining property in large quantities, –

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of four to seven years.

3. The same act committed:

a) by an organised group;

b) by a person who has two or more previous convictions for unlawful appropriation or extortion of another person’s property, –

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of six to nine years.

The consolidated official source is listed in the source section at the end of this guide.

1. A threat of killing, damaging health or destroying property, when a person threatened has started to have a reasonable sensation of fear that the threat will be carried out, –

shall be punished by a fine or community service for a term of 120 to 180 hours, or by corrective labour for a term of up to one year or house arrest for a term of six months to two years, or by imprisonment for a term of up to one year, with or without restriction of the rights regarding weapons.

2. The same act committed:

a) by a group of persons;

b) repeatedly;

c) premeditatedly by a perpetrator against a pregnant woman, a person in a helpless condition, a person with disabilities or a minor, –

d) against a family member, –

shall be punished by a fine or community service for a term of 170 to 200 hours, or by corrective labour for a term of up to two years and/or imprisonment for a term of up to three years, with or without restriction of the rights regarding weapons.

The consolidated official source is listed in the source section at the end of this guide.

1. Rape, that is any form of penetration of a sexual nature of the body of a person with any bodily part or object, committed with violence, under the threat of violence or by abusing a helpless condition of a person affected, –

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of six to eight years, with or without restriction of the rights regarding weapons.

2. The same act:

a) committed by abusing the official position;

b) that caused a serious damage to the health of a person affected, or other serious consequence, –

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of eight to ten years, with or without restriction of the rights regarding weapons.

3. The same act committed:

a) repeatedly;

b) by a person who had previously committed any crime under Articles 138-141 of this Code;

c) by a group of persons;

d) knowingly by an offender against a person with disability or a pregnant woman;

e) against a person under the custodianship, guardianship or surveillance, or a family member, of an offender, –

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of ten to thirteen years, with or without restriction of the rights regarding weapons.

4. The same act:

a) committed against a person affected or any other person with extreme cruelty;

b) that caused death of a person affected;

c) committed knowingly against a minor;

d) committed against a minor using trust, and authoritative and influential position, –

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of fifteen to twenty years, or life imprisonment, with or without restriction of the rights regarding weapons.

The consolidated official source is listed in the source section at the end of this guide.

1. Another action of a sexual nature, which does not contain elements of crime under Article 137 of this Code, committed with violence, under the threat of violence or a helpless condition of a victim, –

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of four to six years, with or without restriction of the rights regarding weapons.

2. The same act:

a) committed repeatedly;

b) committed by abusing the official position;

c) committed by a group of persons;

d) committed knowingly by an offender against a person with disability or a pregnant woman;

e) committed by a person who had previously committed any crime under Articles 137, 139, 140 and 141 of this Code;

f) committed against a person under the custodianship, guardianship or surveillance, or a family member, of an offender;

g) that has caused a serious damage to the health of a person affected, or other serious consequence, –

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of six to nine years, with or without restriction of the rights regarding weapons.

3. The same act:

a) committed knowingly against a minor;

b) committed knowingly against a minor using trust, and authoritative and influential position;

c) that caused death of a person affected, –

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of eleven to fifteen years, with or without restriction of the rights regarding weapons.

4. The same act:

a) committed knowingly by an offender against a person that has not reached 14 years of age;

b) committed with the extreme cruelty, –

shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of fifteen to twenty years, with or without restriction of the rights regarding weapons.

The consolidated official source is listed in the source section at the end of this guide.