Profile: Dorin Recean

Dorin Recean

politician

Profile updated: 16.02.23

Date of Birth: 17.03.1974

Place of Birth: Donduseni, Republic of Moldova

Citizenship: Republic of Moldova

Biography

Dorin Recean graduated from the Moldovan Academy of Economic Sciences, the specialty of management of international economic relationships, and later earned a master’s degree from the Belgian branch of Newport University in the USA, according to his official CV.

For seven years, he worked at the Agency for Enterprise Restructuring and Post-Privatization Technical Assistance (ARIA), as a project manager and chief of program. For one year, he acted as the marketing and sales manager at the telecommunication company TeleMedia Group (now Orange Systems), and then, for almost another seven years, Mr. Recean took over as the managing director at Milenium Grup concern, a firm in the area of financial leasing, market research, and business consultancy.

Between January 2010 and July 2012, Dorin Recean held the position of deputy minister for information technology and communications. His next job was the minister of interior affairs in the cabinet of Vladimir Filat 2. Interestingly, he was sworn in at the same ceremony with Maia Sandu - then education minister - who is now the president of Moldova.

In February 2013, during his tenure as interior minister, Mr. Recean got caught in a public scandal when the media learned of a secretly-tapped phone conversation with Nicolae Vicol, chief of the Fiscal Service at that time. In that conversation, the minister harshed the fiscal manager over alleged wrongdoings by Mr. Vicol’s subordinates. In one particular portion of the record, Mr. Recean says: „...I did ask you one thing - if issues arise, call them in and I’ll smash their heads against the asphalt... while you’ll watch.”

Dorin Recean has never explained himself about the persons he’d meant. The conversation was leaked in the context of a criminal proceeding against Nicolae Vicol, whose phone conversations were intercepted by the police. Mr. Recean later said the leakage occurred at the order of Moldovan oligarch Vladimir Plahotniuc. The latter at that time was in an open conflict with prime minister Vladimir Filat and was doing his best to discredit the government during police investigations into a number of frauds at state-run enterprises.

In November 2014, the cabinet of Iurie Leanca held a secret session that decided to give its backing for state guarantees in return for a 9.5-billion-leu loan from the central bank to three bankrupt banks that had just been robbed out of a total of 1 billion dollars (Savings Bank, Social Bank, Unibank). During that session, Dorin Recean pointed out a number of vulnerabilities in the proposal. „If I know that the proposal is approved, I could walk in the bank, take a loan, deposit the money, and send it to offshore...,” exemplified Mr. Recean to his colleagues. He asked for a protection mechanism (which was never implemented).

After the resignation of the Leanca government, between 2015 and 2022, Dorin Recean worked in the private sector as a data analysis and information consultant. His latest job before returning to the public service was in Alaco Limited, a British business intelligence firm.

Since February 2022, for one year, Dorin Recean served as an advisor to President Maia Sandu on defense and national security, and as the secretary of the Supreme Security Council.

In the business area, he owns 10% of US Food Network SRL, which runs a number of KFC fast-food restaurants in Chisinau. In 2021, this firm reported 52.79 million lei in sales and a 5.3-million-leu profit. Mr. Recean’s dividend amounted to almost 717,000 lei.

He also owns 50% in Performa SRL, a trading and intermediary firm founded in 2015. In 2021, it posted almost half a million lei in sales and more than 100,000 lei in post-tax revenues. As of February 2023, Performa SRL owed almost 15,000 lei to the state.

The new premier is also a 50% business partner at Delta Consulting SRL, a business consultancy and management firm. It reported no revenues in 2021.

In all three firms, Dorin Recean is associated with Traian-Catalin Giosan, the managing director of the media joint-stock company Pro Digital SRL, which runs the television channel PRO TV Chisinau.

The prime minister’s wife Stela Recean is an audit and bank supervision specialist. Since 2018, she holds the seat of deputy chairwoman of the Managing Board of Moldova Agroindbank (Maib), the largest private bank in Moldova.

Career

Connections

The Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova
minister of Interior Affairs (July 2012- February 2015)

Action and Solidarity Party (PAS)
voted in as prime minister

AO Automobil Club din Moldova (PA Automobile Club from Moldova)
member of the council

Delta Consulting SRL
associate with 50%

Maib
spouse is a member and deputy-president of the Management Committee

Performa SRL
associate with 50%

US Food Network SRL
associate with 10%

Income

2021

26.015,00 EUR

5.964.928,30 MDL

9.362,00 USD

consultancy
ALACO LIMITED (Great Britain)

21.750,00 EUR

consultancy
dorGov Solutions LLC

4.200,00 EUR

interest (spouse)
Moldova Agroindbank

65,00 EUR

salary (spouse)
Moldova Agroindbank

4.819.984,16 MDL

dividends
US Food Network SRL

716.924,60 MDL

sale of car BMW X3
Andrei Casian

400.000,00 MDL

university lecturer
Technical University of Moldova

26.332,04 MDL

interest (spouse)
Moldova Agroindbank

1.687,50 MDL

consultancy
UNDP

9.250,00 USD

interest (spouse)
Moldova Agroindbank

112,00 USD

2015

44.988,57 MDL

2014

144.502,28 MDL

2013

653.752,20 MDL

2012

758.599,00 MDL

Bank Accounts

107.433,10 EUR

1.373,00 GBP

1.198.611,73 MDL

537,94 RON

29.217,58 USD

Moldova Agroindbank (spouse)
0,1%

80.001,00 EUR

REVOLUT PAYMENTS UAB

6.571,98 EUR

Moldova Agroindbank (spouse)

3.759,89 EUR

Moldova Agroindbank

27,24 EUR

UniCredit Bank

17.072,99 EUR

Moldova Agroindbank (spouse)

1.371,00 GBP

REVOLUT PAYMENTS UAB

2,00 GBP

Moldova Agroindbank

811,71 MDL

Moldova Agroindbank (spouse)

570.410,00 MDL

Moldova Agroindbank

561.445,02 MDL

Moldova Agroindbank (spouse)

27.484,00 MDL

Moldova Agroindbank (spouse)
3,75%

27.484,00 MDL

Moldova Agroindbank (spouse)

5.082,00 MDL

Moldova Agroindbank (spouse)

4.875,00 MDL

Moldova Agroindbank (spouse)
3,75%

1.000,00 MDL

Moldova Agroindbank (spouse)

18,00 MDL

Moldova Agroindbank

1,00 MDL

Moldova Agroindbank (spouse)

1,00 MDL

REVOLUT PAYMENTS UAB

537,94 RON

Moldova Agroindbank (spouse)
0,4%

28.758,00 USD

Moldova Agroindbank (spouse)

455,00 USD

REVOLUT PAYMENTS UAB

4,58 USD

Real Estate

urban land

2021

5.000,00 EUR (1200 mp)

villa

2021

55.000,00 EUR (97 mp)

other real estate

2005

16.451,00 MDL (16 mp)

agricultural land

2000

15.400,00 MDL (1,272 ha)

house

1996

913.575,00 MDL (271,4 mp)

urban land

1996

46.281,00 MDL (0,0423 ha)

Mobile Assets

car, BMW (2016)

2021

19.250,00 EUR

0,05%, Farmacia Viola SRL

73,00 MDL

Owner: spouse

2,7799%, Projestact SRL

1.000,00 MDL

innactive

50%, Delta Consulting SRL

5.000,00 MDL

50%, Performa SRL

5.000,00 MDL

10%, US Food Network SRL

966,70 MDL

Investigations

Documents