Profile updated: 20.03.22
Stefan Panis
politician
politician
Date of Birth: 25.09.1957
Citizenship: Republic of Moldova
He is a breeding engineer by training, graduating in 1980 from the Frunze Agricultural Institute – currently the Moldovan State Agricultural University in Chisinau. Upon completion of higher studies, Stefan Panis worked in a Soviet collective farm in Causeni District, and later in Floresti District. In the 1990s he was promoted to deputy manager of the Marculesti Collective Farm in Floresti, and two years later he took over as its chief manager.
In 1999, Mr. Panis founded a firm called Panclip SRL, which he ran until 2019. The business is centered on cereal growing. Between 2015 and 2019, he earned more than 3.2 million lei in dividends alone, and in 2020 he collected another half a million lei from the lease of farmland.
In 2007, Stefan Panis was elected a district councilor in Floresti, as a member of the Moldovan Communists Party. In the 2010 parliamentary polls, he sided by the Moldovan Democratic Party (PDM), but did not pass the threshold. However, at the 2011 local elections, he got a new mandate as a councilor in Floresti District on a PDM ticket. In 2012 he was voted as the chairman of this district. He kept the mandate at the 2015 and 2019 elections.
While being employed in a public office, Mr. Panis all that period continued running his business, something that is forbidden by law. He quit the management job in Panclip SRL only in May 2019, although his bio on the Floresti District Council’s official website states that he left Panclip on the day he became the district’s chairman.
In November 2021, the National Integrity Authority (ANI) launched a probe into the reported incompatibility of Mr. Panis’ cumulation of private activity and public office and in February 2022 its inspectors confirmed the incompatibility status. If the findings stay in place, Stefan Panis is due to be dismissed from all public posts and to get a three-year ban in public administration.
That was not the first time Stefan Panis has been screened by ANI. In 2015 it found that he under-reported more than 1.6 million lei in revenues, as well as a difference of some 270,000 lei – that last amount was expected to be confiscated in compliance with existing laws. Prosecutors filed a criminal case on this incident and stopped shortly because Mr. Panis “was at his first deviation from this light offense and admitted his guilt.”
Stefan Panis left the ranks of PDM in August 2020 and implicitly the chairmanship of the party branch in Floresti. Along with other ex-PDM fellows he criticized what they called “the disregard of PDM leadership for voters’ interests” and walked as politically non-affiliated.
Stefan Panis has been awarded the Order of Honor in 2011 by then-acting president Marian Lupu and the Labor Glory Order in 2020 from then-president Igor Dodon.
Mr. Panis owns more than 500 hectares of farmland, most of which was acquired after 2011.
In 1999, Mr. Panis founded a firm called Panclip SRL, which he ran until 2019. The business is centered on cereal growing. Between 2015 and 2019, he earned more than 3.2 million lei in dividends alone, and in 2020 he collected another half a million lei from the lease of farmland.
In 2007, Stefan Panis was elected a district councilor in Floresti, as a member of the Moldovan Communists Party. In the 2010 parliamentary polls, he sided by the Moldovan Democratic Party (PDM), but did not pass the threshold. However, at the 2011 local elections, he got a new mandate as a councilor in Floresti District on a PDM ticket. In 2012 he was voted as the chairman of this district. He kept the mandate at the 2015 and 2019 elections.
While being employed in a public office, Mr. Panis all that period continued running his business, something that is forbidden by law. He quit the management job in Panclip SRL only in May 2019, although his bio on the Floresti District Council’s official website states that he left Panclip on the day he became the district’s chairman.
In November 2021, the National Integrity Authority (ANI) launched a probe into the reported incompatibility of Mr. Panis’ cumulation of private activity and public office and in February 2022 its inspectors confirmed the incompatibility status. If the findings stay in place, Stefan Panis is due to be dismissed from all public posts and to get a three-year ban in public administration.
That was not the first time Stefan Panis has been screened by ANI. In 2015 it found that he under-reported more than 1.6 million lei in revenues, as well as a difference of some 270,000 lei – that last amount was expected to be confiscated in compliance with existing laws. Prosecutors filed a criminal case on this incident and stopped shortly because Mr. Panis “was at his first deviation from this light offense and admitted his guilt.”
Stefan Panis left the ranks of PDM in August 2020 and implicitly the chairmanship of the party branch in Floresti. Along with other ex-PDM fellows he criticized what they called “the disregard of PDM leadership for voters’ interests” and walked as politically non-affiliated.
Stefan Panis has been awarded the Order of Honor in 2011 by then-acting president Marian Lupu and the Labor Glory Order in 2020 from then-president Igor Dodon.
Mr. Panis owns more than 500 hectares of farmland, most of which was acquired after 2011.
Political Affiliation
Private Function
Public Function
Career
03.2012
Floresti District Council
chairman
2007
Floresti District Council
2012
councilor
1999
Panclip SRL
04.2019
director
1998
Collective Farm Flor-Marc
1999
chairman
1990
Collective Farm Marculesti
1998
deputy director, director
1989
Cooperative agro-industrial association, Floresti district
1999
senior breeding engineer
1988
The district agrarian-industrial union
1989
senior breeding engineer
1983
Collective Farm Marculesti
1988
senior breeding engineer
1980
Collective Farm Cainarskii
1982
senior breeding engineer
Income
2020
Total: 861.896,07 MDL
2019
Total: 1.355.373,90 MDL
2018
Total: 629.280,99 MDL
2017
Total: 616.604,34 MDL
2016
Total: 1.016.958,23 MDL
2015
Total: 1.207.445,32 MDL
2014
Total: 129.668,00 MDL
2013
Total: 80.585,00 MDL
Real Estate
2020
2 agricultural land plots
Value: 51.047,81 MDL
Area: 2.4756 ha
Ownership: 50%
2020
7 agricultural land plots
Value: 207.397,87 MDL
Area: 4.5128 ha
Ownership: 100%
2019
26 agricultural land plots
Value: 152.707,80 MDL
Area: 25.4513 ha
Ownership: 100%
2019
5 agricultural land plots
Value: 27.944,70 MDL
Area: 9.3149 ha
Ownership: 50%
2018
26 agricultural land plots
Value: 157.575,00 MDL
Area: 26.2625 ha
Ownership: 100%
2018
6 agricultural land plots
Value: 17.987,40 MDL
Area: 6.0759 ha
Ownership: 100%
2017
3 agricultural land plots
Value: 5.005,80 MDL
Area: 0.8343 ha
Ownership: 50%
2017
46 agricultural land plots
Value: 317.809,60 MDL
Area: 52.9682 ha
Ownership: 100%
2017
Agricultural land
Value: 24.919,80 MDL
Area: 4,1533 ha
Ownership: 100%
2016
100 agricultural land plots
Value: 391.260,00 MDL
Area: 65.2100 ha
Ownership: 100%
2015
113 agricultural land plots
Value: 526.982,00 MDL
Area: 86.0683 ha
Ownership: 100%
2015
13 agricultural land plots
Value: 66.174,00 MDL
Area: 11.0287 ha
Ownership: 50%
2015
2 agricultural land plots
Value: 4.921,00 MDL
Area: 0.8202 ha
Ownership: 2/5
2015
4 agricultural land plots
Value: 18.233,00 MDL
Area: 3.0390 ha
Ownership: 1/3
2015
4 agricultural land plots
Value: 18.233,00 MDL
Area: 3.0390 ha
Ownership: 1/3
2014
Agricultural land
Value: N/A
Area: 42.3651 ha
Ownership: 100%
2013
Agricultural land
Value: N/A
Area: 70.1102 ha
Ownership: 100%
2012
Agricultural land
Value: N/A
Area: 32.4595 ha
Ownership: 100%
2011
Agricultural land
Value: N/A
Area: 26.364 ha
Ownership: 100%
2010
Agricultural land
Value: N/A
Area: 8.3704 ha
Ownership: 100%
2010
House
Value: N/A
Area: 123,1 mp
Ownership: 100%
2010
Other real estate
Value: 20.816,00 MDL
Area: 32,2 mp
Ownership: 100%
2010
Urban land
Value: 6.000,00 USD
Area: 0.0623 ha
Ownership: 100%
2009
Agricultural land
Value: N/A
Area: 10.4499 ha
Ownership: 100%
2008
Agricultural land
Value: N/A
Area: 6.9462 ha
Ownership: 100%
2006
Agricultural land
Value: N/A
Area: 35.1103 ha
Ownership: 100%
2005
Agricultural land
Value: N/A
Area: 5.1292 ha
Ownership: 100%
2002
Agricultural land
Value: N/A
Area: 11.9434 ha
Ownership: 100%
2000
Agricultural land
Value: N/A
Area: 7.4677 ha
Ownership: 100%
1999
Agricultural land
Value: N/A
Area: 10.2582 ha
Ownership: 100%
1990
House
Value: 137.725,00 MDL
Area: 125,2 mp
Ownership: 100%
1990
Urban land
Value: 33.645,00 MDL
Area: 0.0643 ha
Ownership: 100%
Mobile Assets
2019
Company
Endo-Grup LLC
Value: N/A
2017
Car
Hyundai Santa Fe
Value: 28.000,00 EUR
2012 - 2015
Car
Value: N/A
2004
Motorcycle
Minsk
Value: 2.000,00 MDL
1999 - 2019
Company
Panclip LLC
Value: N/A
1996 - 2019
Car
Mercedes 124
Value: N/A
Loans (Taken)
2021 - 2027
Stefan Panis
(7,5%)
500.000,00 MDL
Moldindconbank
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Connections
former candidate for the position of Floresti district councilor
former president of the Floresti Party Branch
Endo-Grup SRL
holds 80%