Profile: Oazu Nantoi

Oazu Nantoi

politician

Profile updated: 05.08.2021

Date of Birth: 03.02.1948

Place of Birth: Vancicauti village, Cernauti region, Ukraine

Citizenship: Republic of Moldova

Biography

Oazu Nantoi has been in politics for 30 years. He began his career as deputy chairman of the council of the Moldovan People’s Front, a nationalist movement at the time of the breakup of the Soviet Union. In 1990 he appeared as one of three co-leaders of the Moldovan Social Democratic Party.

In 2007 he joined the Moldovan Democratic Party (PDM), then led by Dumitru Diacov, and in 2008 he rose to PDM’s deputy chairman. During 2007-2009 Mr. Nantoi served as a municipal councilor in the capital on behalf of PDM and in 2009 he was elected as an MP where he labored until 2010. When Vladimir Plahotniuc was added as second on PDM’s candidate list for the November 2010 elections, Mr. Nantoi announced his withdrawal from politics. Officially he retired from PDM in summer 2011.

In 2012, with no political affiliation Mr. Nantoi decided to run independently for president but his candidacy never get to a vote procedure as the coalition parties were short of finding compromise about him.

The year of 2015 found Mr. Nantoi in the team of the Moldovan European People’s Party (PPEM) led by Iurie Leancă who defected the Moldovan Liberal Democratic Party. PPEM fielded Mr. Nantoi as its candidate for the job of mayor in Chișinău; he came only third but took over as leader of the PPEM faction in the Municipal Council, until 2018.

Also in 2015 Oazu Nantoi takes an active part in the formation of the Dignity and Truth Platform (DA) as a founding member. This civic movement later became a political party.

Mr. Nantoi became an elected MP in the 24 February 2019 parliamentary elections on behalf of ACUM (PAS+DA bloc). Oazu Nantoi competed in the uninominal constituency #12 – Sîngerei and lost to his Democratic opponent.

In the past Mr. Nantoi was the programs director at the Public Policies Institute, a nonprofit for public opinion research and sociological studies. He is also a recognized expert in Transnistria issues.

Oazu Nantoi’s name can be found in a RISE Moldova investigation about the privatization of Aroma, a brandy-maker, by Cypriot investors via Euro-Alco SRL. Mr. Nantoi represented the Cypriot buyers in that transaction.

Career

Public Function

Private Function

Political Affiliation

Parliament
(01.2019 - )

member of the Parliament

Chisinau Municipal Council
(2015 - 2018)

councilor, leader of the PPEM faction

Parliament
(2009 - 2010)

member of the Parliament

Chisinau Municipal Council
(2007 - 2009)

municipal councilor from PDM

Public Policies Institute
(2000 - 2019)

program director

Interdepartmental Commission for State Policy Coordination on the left bank of the Dniester river
(1998 - 1998)

chief of Directorate

Încrederea (The Trust) Association
(1995 - 2001)

director-coordinator

Euro-Alco SRL
(1995 - 1998)

director

Logos-Press Agency
(1992 - 1995)

deputy director

Staff of the President of Moldova
(1991 - 1992)

chief of the Political Analysis Directorate

Moldova-Press Agency
(1990 - 1991)

deputy director general

Institute of Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of Moldova
(1974 - 1989)

senior engineer

Vibroaparat Factory
(1970 - 1972)

engineer

Connections

Income

2020

411.310,30 MDL

202.902,27 MDL

149.800,00 MDL

35.156,74 MDL

18.130,00 MDL

2.004,55 MDL

1.816,74 MDL

1.500,00 MDL

2019

64,00 EUR

302.576,86 MDL

490,00 USD

64,00 EUR

136.886,62 MDL

90.903,24 MDL

40.895,00 MDL

23.892,00 MDL

10.000,00 MDL

200,00 USD

90,00 USD

2018

64,00 EUR

286.064,00 MDL

542,00 USD

dividends (spouse)
Energbank

64,00 EUR

salary
Public Policies Institute

180.563,00 MDL

pension
National House of Social Insurance

77.493,00 MDL

pension (spouse)
National House of Social Insurance

28.008,00 MDL

dividends (spouse)
Moldova Agroindbank

230,00 USD

dividends (spouse)
Mobiasbanca

220,00 USD

dividends (spouse)
Energbank

92,00 USD

2017

475.223,00 MDL

2016

102.380,00 MDL

400,00 USD

2013-2014

434.111,89 MDL

1.230,68 USD

Bank Accounts

10.690,34 EUR

56.249,42 USD

8.300,00 EUR

2.390,34 EUR

21.000,00 USD

12.549,42 USD

11.700,00 USD

11.000,00 USD

Real Estate

apartment

2011

325.197,00 MDL (48,7 mp)

Owner: spouse

Ownership: 100%

apartment

1997

299.808,00 MDL (58,4 mp)

Ownership: 100%

land

1996

877,00 MDL (0,07 ha)

Owner: spouse

Ownership: 100%

apartment

1981

588.079,00 MDL (67,1 mp)

Ownership: 100%

N/A

Mobile Assets

Investigations

Documents