Zahari Georgiev Borachev

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

• Intelligence officer Chavdar Borachev, son of General Demir Borachev. A question for the MP. In Decision No. 199 of 16.03.2011 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) the Dossier Commission announces the career of Chavdar Demirov Borachev, born on 24.05.1948 in Varna: on 31.08.1974 he was appointed junior operative, on 16.10.1981 he became intelligence officer grade V, and his last reassignment, again to that post, dates from 15.09.1989. The same was announced in Decisions No. 2-2399 and No. 2-2400 of 28.05.2024 and No. 3-69 of 07.04.2026, when he stood for the National Assembly and the European Parliament. Anton Todorov in Faktor.bg (2016) presents him as chairman of the board of the Association of Military Intelligence Officers and writes that his father, Demir Dimitrov Borachev, was sentenced to death in the trial of the Shumen military conspiracy, and later commanded the Second Army, became deputy chief of the General Staff and head of the Administrative Organs department of the BKP Central Committee. The MP was born on 01.10.1972 in Shumen; his patronymic is Georgiev. We found no source linking his family to the general's. Our question to Zahari Borachev: are you related to Demir and Chavdar Borachev? — Dossier Commission, Persons checked, Faktor.bg, 26.09.2016

Other

• The Borachev firms among those who paid a Kaolinovo land-office official found guilty By Decision No. 72 of 21.04.2023 in case НАХД No. 135/2023, the Shumen District Court found a junior expert of the municipal agriculture office in Kaolinovo guilty of using his official position in 2016–2021 to obtain an unlawful benefit for himself and his relatives; it released him from criminal liability with a fine of BGN 2,000. Among the farmers from whom he demanded and received parts of the land they farmed, so that he could file subsidy applications in his relatives' names, the court lists „Борачев“ ЕООД. From it and from the sole trader ЕТ „Захари Борачев“ the expert took BGN 50–100 for mapping land and preparing applications outside working hours, and from the Borachev company also BGN 500 for help in contacting sellers of farmland. The case was against the official only; the decision took effect on 10 May 2023. Agrovestnik places the base and farms of the farmer Zahari Borachev in the village of Todor Ikonomov, Kaolinovo municipality. — Shumen District Court, decision No. 72/21.04.2023 (Dela.bg), Agrovestnik, 14.03.2019