If Mr G Yeo indeed really wants to speed things up, he'd just pick up the phone and give his Romanian counterpart, Mr Teodor Baconschi a telephone call/ email and the 2 plan how to bring Ionescu to justice.... ...
Ref:May 21, 2010
Bukit Panjang Road hit and run case
Romania 'doing its part'
By Teh Joo Lin
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Mr Nayar (above) was sent to the country to help speed up Romania's investigations into Ionescu. -- PHOTO: AP
SINGAPORE'S special envoy to Romania has ended his visit to the country, and is convinced that its officials are doing their bit to ensure that suspended diplomat Silviu Ionescu is brought to book.
Mr Anil Kumar Nayar, Singapore's Ambassador to the European Union, arrived in Romania with other officials from the Republic's Attorney-General's Chambers on Tuesday.
Over the past four days, the team met key people in Romania handling the case, including prosecutors and officials from the Foreign and Justice ministries. It also expressed Singapore's serious intent to see justice served in the case.
Mr Nayar was sent to the country to help speed up Romania's investigations into Ionescu, the country's former charge d'affaires in Singapore who was found by a court here to be responsible for a hit-and-run accident that killed one and injured two along Bukit Panjang Road on Dec 15.
Speaking by phone from Romania, he told The Straits Times on Friday: 'So far, our own sense is that the Romanian officials dealing with this case are indeed trying their best to move the case forward towards an outcome whereby justice is served. That was the overall sense that we got from our discussions here.'
He added: 'Obviously, more work needs to be done to make sure that this momentum may sustain, to make sure that there are no problems that crop up not just in terms of the case and investigations, but also in terms of the bilateral relationship.'
Read the full report in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_529753.html
We all behave like quiet dogs .
Because PAP ruling party only persecutes locals .
But sing praises for FTs and foreigners .
Ionescu in another bid for release from detention in Romania
By Claudia Craiu | Posted: 17 August 2010 1819 hrs
...He argued that the prosecutor's indictment document had not named the key witness who had identified Ionescu as the driver during the coroner's inquiry in Singapore.
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Court extends Ionescu's arrest warrant
[2010] 19 Aug_ST
Title: Court extends Ionescu's arrest warrant
Source: Straits Times
BUCHAREST: A Romanian court yesterday kept Silviu Ionescu under lock and key as he awaits trial in connection with a hit-and-run accident in Singapore last year.
The former diplomat's arrest warrant came up for review yesterday and a lower court extended it.
Ionescu's attorney has appealed against the decision. It is expected to be heard by the Bucharest Appeal Court next Monday or Tuesday.
Failing the appeal, another review of his arrest warrant would be heard in 60 days, but his trial is expected to be under way before then.
The case is scheduled for Oct 6.
Ionescu, 50, is alleged to have hit three pedestrians in a double hit-and-run accident in Bukit Panjang on Dec 15 last year, when he was charge d'affaires of the Romanian embassy in Singapore.
One of them, Mr Tong Kok Wai, 30, died of his injuries more than a week after the accident.
The charges against Ionescu include culpable homicide, causing personal injury, making false statements and leaving the scene of an accident.
The maximum penalty, if he is found guilty of the most serious charge, is seven years in prison.
Yesterday's action means Ionescu will remain at a former maximum-security penitentiary near Bucharest.
The unit is no longer a correctional facility and is used mostly to house prisoners under arrest.
MIHAI URSU
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