3-year prison sentence for ex-Romanian diplomat

[songsongpunggol]

Where he go? Run road again?

3-year prison sentence for ex-Romanian diplomat

The Associated Press, Bucharest, Romania | World | Wed, March 27 2013, 2:13 PM

A Romanian court has handed down a three-year prison sentence to a former Romanian diplomat for killing a man in a hit-and-run accident in Singapore, where he had been an embassy attache.

A Bucharest district court sentenced Silviu Ionescu on Wednesday in a ruling that can be appealed. Neither Ionescu nor his attorneys were present.

Ionescu had testified that he had been set up by authorities in the Asian city-state.

He was accused of hitting two pedestrians with his car early on Dec. 15, 2009, and then hitting and injuring a third person while driving away. One man died 10 days later.

Ionescu returned to Romania immediately after the accident, citing diplomatic immunity. He said he had not been driving the embassy vehicle because it had been stolen earlier.

 

[tomahawk]

Where he go? Run road again?

A Bucharest district court sentenced Silviu Ionescu on Wednesday in a ruling that can be appealed. Neither Ionescu nor his attorneys were present.

CNA report omitted out.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1262654/1/.html

 

[GoldenDragon]

If Romanian soccer can kelong big time, same will take place behind bars.

 

[Microsoft]

Happy New Year I only Screw...

Heavier jail term for ex-diplomat Silviu Ionescu


BUCHAREST (AFP) - An appeals court in Bucharest on Thursday doubled the sentence to six years for a Romanian diplomat convicted for a deadly hit-and-run accident in Singapore in 2009.

Silviu Ionescu, Romania's charge d'affaires in Singapore at the time, was initially sentenced to three years behind bars after being found guilty of manslaughter for hitting three pedestrians in December 2009 while driving a car belonging to the Romanian mission.

One of the pedestrians, a 30-year-old Malaysian, died.

The two judges of the Court of Appeal. Dorei Matei and Ion Tudoran, both rejected “out of hand” the appeal of Ionescu to be acquitted, and accepted the appeal of the State Prosecutor against the initial sentence which was considered by the state as “too lenient”, according to Mediafax News Agency.

According to the decision taken by the Court of Appeal – which is final – Ionescu was sentenced to six years’ jail for manslaughter with aggravated circumstances, two-and-a-half years for grevious bodily harm with aggravated circumstances and four years’ jail for abandoning the scene of the accident. According to the law, the sentences run concurrently, so the former diplomat will have to serve only the heaviest sentence, which is six years, Mediafax News Agency reported.
“We reject out of hand and as without any foundation the appeals formulated by the accused Ionescu Silviu”, concluded the ruling of the Court of Appeal.
The State Prosecution Service appealed to the Court of Appeal in Bucharest on the basis that Ionescu was guilty of a grave crime for which he showed no remorse and which he continued to deny despite the weight of the evidence against him. Ionescu also deformed and harmed the international image and reputation of Romania as a result of his crime.

In his last words before the Court, Ionescu continued to claim that he was not at the wheel of the embassy car, claiming that at the time of the alleged accident he was ringing the Singapore police to inform them that the car was stolen.

The lawyer representing the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs also asked the Court to order the payment of a damages for the sum of S$13,340, representing the total costs incurred in forfeiting the use of the damaged car for a period of more than three years. The Court of Appeal accepted the Ministry’s claim for damages and ordered the Romanian insurance company which provided insurance for the car to pay the Romanian State the equivalent of S$15,985, Mediafax reported.

Ionescu's lawyer was not immediately available for comment.

During his trial, which started in 2010, the former diplomat repeatedly said he was framed by the Singapore authorities because of critical reports he sent to the Romanian foreign ministry as head of the diplomatic mission in the city-state.

The case triggered widespread outrage, but his diplomatic immunity and the lack of an extradition treaty meant he could not be brought back to Singapore to stand trial.
His defence team argued during the trial that he should be acquitted on the grounds that there was no direct evidence linking him to the crime.
Ionescu fled Singapore shortly after the accident.

http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/singapore/story/heavier-jail-term-romania-ex-diplomat-singapore-crash-20140214

 

[Dark Knight]

This good for nothing chap already run road after spending his glorious time bedding so many SPG.
All those SPGs in Sillypore will never learn their lesson.
Always though "ang mo is big dick".

 

[GoldenPeriod]

serve here, serve in romania no use.

 

[I_Hate_Pappies]

Where he go? Run road again?

3-year prison sentence for ex-Romanian diplomat

The Associated Press, Bucharest, Romania | World | Wed, March 27 2013, 2:13 PM

A Romanian court has handed down a three-year prison sentence to a former Romanian diplomat for killing a man in a hit-and-run accident in Singapore, where he had been an embassy attache.

A Bucharest district court sentenced Silviu Ionescu on Wednesday in a ruling that can be appealed. Neither Ionescu nor his attorneys were present.

Ionescu had testified that he had been set up by authorities in the Asian city-state.

He was accused of hitting two pedestrians with his car early on Dec. 15, 2009, and then hitting and injuring a third person while driving away. One man died 10 days later.

Ionescu returned to Romania immediately after the accident, citing diplomatic immunity. He said he had not been driving the embassy vehicle because it had been stolen earlier.

"Ionescu had testified that he had been set up by authorities in the Asian city-state."

Is the gabernment going to sue him for this statement since he's proven guilty now?

 

[johnny333]

It's funny that although the crime was committed in Spore. The trial & conviction is being held outside of Spore.

How come there are no demands from the Spore gov't that he face Spore justice

 

[tonychat]

It's funny that although the crime was committed in Spore. The trial & conviction is being held outside of Spore.

How come there are no demands from the Spore gov't that he face Spore justice

just a wayang show..

 

[Papsmearer]

It's funny that although the crime was committed in Spore. The trial & conviction is being held outside of Spore.

How come there are no demands from the Spore gov't that he face Spore justice

Its better this way. If he had been brought back to singapore for trial, the court expenses would have to be borne by singapore taxpayers, and lets face it, the PAP kangaroo courts were never going to convict an FT consulate staff with diplomatic immunity. and 6 years is more than what a local would have gotten in a similar situation anyway. so, its all good.

 

[steffychun]

It's funny that although the crime was committed in Spore. The trial & conviction is being held outside of Spore.

How come there are no demands from the Spore gov't that he face Spore justice

PAP like Eastern Europeans. Hate Indons.