Profile: Ion Chicu

Ion Chicu

politician

Profile updated: 20.08.24

Date of Birth: 28.02.1972

Place of Birth: Pirjolteni village, Calarasi district

Citizenship: Republic of Moldova

Biography

Ion Chicu had completed his higher education at the Moldovan Academy of Economic Studies and worked there as a lecturer after graduation. In 1994 he takes jobs in the private sector too: first as a department chief and later as the executive director of Moldacom SA.

In 2005, during the Communists Party rule, Mr. Chicu took over as head of the Structural Reforms Department in the Ministry of Economy and Commerce; there he met Igor Dodon who served as a deputy minister.

Some time later he held the post of adviser to then Deputy Premier Zinaida Grecianii, and four months later Mr. Cucu landed in the seat of deputy minister of finance. He returned to Zinaida Grecianii in 2008, when the latter was named prime minister. Mr. Chicu served her as an adviser on economics and foreign policy until September 2009, the time the Communists got swept from power.

The next eight years Ion Chicu worked as a consultant in public finance management in various projects implemented by the Ministry of Finance, the World Bank Office, and the economic consultancy ECORYS.

He returned to the Ministry of Finance as a secretary-general in early 2018, on a ticket from the Democratic Party (PDM), and by the end of the same year he got promoted to the post of minister of Finance. When PDM concedes to relax its grip on power in June 2019, and the Socialists ally with the opposition bloc ACUM, Ion Chicu quit the post.

President Igor Dodon didn't leave him jobless for long - soon Mr. Chicu joined the head of state as his adviser. Three months later the Socialists sacked the government dominated by their ally and Mr. Dodon fielded his adviser to the office of Prime Minister; Ion Chicu won the confidence vote from the same Socialist and Democratic MPs who dumped the cabinet of Maia Sandu.

In the summer of 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, Chicu married off his son and threw a party, even though such events were banned at the time. The prime minister then stated that it wasn't a wedding but rather a 'celebratory meal.'

After Igor Dodon's defeat in the presidential elections, a day before Maia Sandu's inauguration, Ion Chicu announced his resignation from the head of the Government.

However, he returned to the political arena at the end of March 2021, when he announced the creation of a new political party – the Party of Development and Consolidation of Moldova (PDCM). Alongside Chicu are former ministers from the government he led, Viorica Dumbrăveanu and Anatol Usatîi.

In the early parliamentary elections of summer 2021, the party led by Chicu obtained a score of 0.43%.

In 2024, during the presidential elections, Chicu was nominated by the PDCM to run for the position of president. However, he announced that he would boycott the consultative referendum on Moldova's accession to the European Union.

Career

Public Function

Private Function

Political Affiliation

Partidul Dezvoltării și Consolidării Moldovei
(03.2021 - )

president

Government
(10.2019 - 11.2020)

prime minister

The Presidency of the Republic of Moldova
(06.2019 - 10.2019)

presidential adviser in the field of public finances

The Ministry of Finance
(11.2018 - 05.2019)

minister

The Ministry of Finance
(2018 - 11.2018)

general secretary of state

State University of Medicine and Pharmacy „Nicolae Testemitanu”
(09.2015 - 11.2017)

member, chairman of the Board of Strategic Development

Government
(03.2008 - 08.2009)

adviser to the prime minister on economic issues and external relations

Council of Europe Development Bank
(01.2007 - 08.2009)

member of the Board of Directors

The Ministry of Finance
(02.2006 - 03.2008)

deputy minister

Government
(10.2005 - 02.2006)

advisor to the first deputy prime minister

Ministry of Economy and Commerce
(05.2005 - 10.2005)

head of the General Directorate for structural reforms

The Reform Party
(02.1998 - 02.1998)

candidate on the national list for parliamentary elections

Moldacom SA
(11.1994 - 2005)

head of department, executive director

Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova
(06.1994 - 05.1996)

lecturer, Micro and Macroeconomics Department

Connections

Income

2023

780.898,54 MDL

sale of car
Nissan Qashqai, year of manufacture 2021

415.800,00 MDL

donation
from Ruslan Flocea

100.000,00 MDL

salary (spouse)
SC Imunotehnomed

83.710,45 MDL

salary (spouse)
Sono Med Expert SRL

71.994,00 MDL

salary
Cahulpan SA

42.085,26 MDL

salary
Party of Development and Consolidation of Moldova

36.026,50 MDL

donation
from Ion Iaconi

30.000,00 MDL

interest

1.282,33 MDL

2020

282.943,00 MDL

2019

374.713,00 MDL

2018

426.927,00 MDL

2017

127.205,00 MDL

59.234,00 USD

Loans (Given)

Moldindconbank

2020

50.000,00 MDL (9%)

2022

Ion Chicu

Moldindconbank

2020

690.000,00 MDL (5%)

2040

Spouse

Puscuta Sergiu

2022

150.000,00 MDL (0%)

2026

Ion Chicu

Real Estate

apartment

2020

379.698,00 MDL (59,9 mp)

Ownership: 100%

sale-purchase agreement

villa

2015

776.690,00 MDL (77,9 mp)

Ownership: 100%

agreement on real estate share

agricultural land

2013

88.147,00 MDL (0,064 ha)

Ownership: 100%

ownership

agricultural land

2012

45.450,00 MDL (0,033 ha)

Ownership: 100%

ownership

agricultural land

1994

125.000,00 MDL (0,15 ha)

Ownership: 100%

ownership

Mobile Assets

car, Audi Q2 E-Tron (2020)

2023

430.000,00 MDL

ownership

car, Suzuki Vitara (2015)

2015

200.000,00 MDL

2020

declared until 2020

car, Hyundai Santa Fe (2006)

2012

150.000,00 MDL

2018

sold for 145,000 lei

company, Adamin SRL

1.350,00 MDL

holds 25%

Investigations

Documents