Viorel Melnic

Viorel Melnic (born 1975) is a Moldovan politician and economist.

Biography Melnic was born in 1975. He was the Deputy Minister of Economy and Trade in 2006 and the head of the Customs Service of the Republic of Moldova from 2008 to 2009. Until 2015, he was a member of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM); he would have been kicked out of the party after its leader Igor Dodon learned of Melnic's involvement in fraudulent schemes related to the 2014 Moldovan bank fraud scandal.

In early 2016, Melnic was appointed public policy advisor for economic issues during Moldovan oligarch and politician Ilan Shor's mayorship. Melnic also associated with Shor regarding businesses in Kyrgyzstan. Melnic became a member of the Parliament of Moldova after winning the seat of the 48th electoral constituency, destined for residents in the south of Transnistria, during the 2019 Moldovan parliamentary election of February, but he resigned in July shortly after both Shor and Moldovan oligarch and politician Vladimir Plahotniuc left Moldova.