Profile: Igor Dodon

Igor Dodon

politician

Profile updated: 24.05.2022

Date of Birth: 18.02.1975

Place of Birth: Sadova village, Calarasi district

Citizenship: Republic of Moldova

Biography

Igor Dodon has been in Moldova’s political landscape for more than ten years. In the [post-Soviet] Communist Government he served as first deputy prime minister and economy minister. Until 2011 he was in the ranks of Vladimir Voronin’s Party of Communists. He left them to lead the Party of Socialists, a rival left-leaning group.

In 2016 Mr. Dodon won the presidential election in Moldova. As chief of state he often travels to Moscow and openly defends a pro-Russian policy. He insists that Moldova joined the Russia-Belarus-Kazakhstan Customs Union.

Mr. Dodon was repeatedly suspended from office for short periods by the lawmakers for refusing to sign a number of laws.

In the electoral race for a new term as president, Igor Dodon is officially an independent candidate, but he still enjoys the support of PSRM - the party with the most seats in the Chisinau legislature.

RISE Moldova analyzed the agenda of the meetings that Igor Dodon saved in a BlackBerry phone that he used until mid-2017 and presents, for the first time, evidence of Dodon's interaction with representatives of the Russian propaganda machine and political strategies. The information is contained in the #Kremlinovici investigation project, carried out in collaboration with the "Досье" Center.

"Kremlinovici" is the username Mr. Dodon used in discussions with Moldovan officials and politicians via an encrypted application.

The RISE Moldova investigation sheds to light that during his long political career, the lawmaker and later President Igor Dodon has been timing his activities with a Moldovan affairs office in the Kremlin - a unit established to oversee and guide the Socialist Party leader and other politicians in the Republic of Moldova, either through intermediaries or directly. Travels to Moscow were frequent. In 2016 alone - the year Dodon won his first presidential mandate – he embarked on at least ten flights to the Russian capital.

The Dodon family owns a house of over 400 square meters, worth over 2 million lei. More than half of the family's income for the year 2019 is the contribution of First Lady Galina Dodon, who earns twice as much as her husband. Mrs. Dodon received approximately 400,000 lei from Exclusiv Media SRL - a company closely connected to the Socialists (PSRM). RISE Moldova had reported about this company for its involvement in the so-called "Russian Operation Bahamas" - which is about pumping offshore money into bank accounts of PSRM members and sponsors a few months before the 2016 presidential election. The money helped Igor Dodon beat his competitors for the top governmental job.

Career

Public Function

Private Function

Political Affiliation

PA The Moldovan-Russian Business Union
(01.2022 - )

chairman

Socialists Party of Republic of Moldova
(11.2021 - )

honorary president

Parliament
(06.2021 - 09.2021)

member of the Parliament

Bloc of Communists and Socialists
(06.2021 - 09.2021)

member of the parliamentary faction

Socialists Party of Republic of Moldova
(11.2020 - 11.2021)

president

The Presidency of the Republic of Moldova
(11.2016 - 11.2020)

president

Socialists Party of Republic of Moldova
(11.2011 - 10.2016)

president

Parliament
(03.2009 - 2016)

member of the Parliament

Government
(02.2008 - 08.2009)

first deputy prime minister, minister of Economy and Trade

Communist Party from Republic of Moldova
(08.2006 - 10.2011)

Government
(08.2006 - 02.2008)

minister of Economy and Trade

Ministry of Economy and Trade
(04.2005 - 2006)

deputy minister

National Securities Commission
(01.2003 - 04.2005)

member of the Council of experts

Universal Commodity Exchange of Moldova SRL
(08.2002 - 04.2005)

chairman, member of the stock exchange Committee

National Securities Depository of Moldova SA
(10.2001 - 04.2005)

president, member of the Board of Directors

The Stock Exchange
(06.1997 - 10.2001)

Connections

Income

2021

410.135,66 MDL

2020

699.057,66 MDL

2019

622.445,39 MDL

2018

580.080,00 MDL

2017

506.406,00 MDL

2016

456.405,60 MDL

2015

309.118,65 MDL

2014

384.505,27 MDL

2013

1.162.760,66 MDL

2012

264.263,00 MDL

Loans (Taken)

Real Estate

Investigations

Documents