Dragomir Valeriev Zakov
Positions
Minister of Defence in the cabinet of Kiril Petkov from 1 March to 2 August 2022: Decision of the 47th National Assembly of 01.03.2022 (State Gazette No. 18/2022, in Bulgarian); Decision of the 47th National Assembly of 22.06.2022 (no confidence) (State Gazette No. 48/2022, in Bulgarian); Decree No. 212 of 01.08.2022 (State Gazette No. 61/2022, in Bulgarian).
Public record
Compiled from publications and official records as of 23.10.2026. Every statement links to its source; claims made by others are marked as such, with who makes them. Quotations in English are our translation.
Communist Party and State Security
- His father – listed in the Dossier Commission register as an intelligence officer. Breaking.bg writes: "The father of the new defence minister is Valeri Denchev Zakov, born on 19.02.1953 in Pleven" (our translation). The outlet also claims that in the Dossier Commission's documents his name appears as a recruiter of various people. The commission's register (Decision No 3-145 of 28.07.2026) has a record under the same name and date of birth: by order No K-3640 of 23.11.1977 he was appointed intelligence officer, grade III; by order No 217 of 30.10.1981 he was reassigned as senior intelligence officer in the ВГУ; by order No 5 of 02.01.1984 as inspector; and by order No 123 of 02.08.1988 as deputy head of department. — Dossier Commission, decision No 3-145, 28.07.2026, Breaking.bg, 2 Mar 2022
Sources: the National Assembly decisions in the State Gazette; photo: gov.bg (archived, in Bulgarian) (23.10.2026).
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