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Silviu Ionescu arrested for another 30 days
The tribunal of sector 5 decided on Friday at the proposal of the prosecutors to extend the arrest for the former business attaché of Romania to Singapore Silviu Ionescu. The decision could be attacked at the Tribunal of Bucharest. The magistrates of Tribunal of Bucharest rejected on 13 May the appeal of the former business attaché of Romania to Singapore Silviu Ionescu and decided that he should still be kept under arrest, being accused of producing a car accident with the death of a person. The decision is final.
On 8 May, the tribunal of sector 5 issued a mandate for arrest of 29 days for Silviu Ionescu. He was heard, for more than five hours by the prosecutors of the General Prosecution Office who decided to require the judges to arrest him, as the diplomat tried to influence the statements of some of the witnesses.
“ As a result of the investigation it was shown that using his diplomatic immunity Silviu Ionescu left the state of Singapore and after the accident he tried to influence the statements of the witnesses and by use of texting he required one employee to make some alterations in the car route log so that he could delete some data in the computer at his working place” the press release of the General Prosecutors’ Office says.
Silviu Ionescu is under investigation for crime, hit and run and statement fraud. According to the General prosecutor’s office on 15 December 2009 at about 3.10 Silviu Ionescu while he was driving an Audi A6 belonging to the Embassy of Romania to Singapore injured at a monitored crossroads two people who were crossing legally the road. The driver left the accident scene and continued to drive the car injuring another person. One of the victims died as a result of the injuries, the other two being seriously injured as well.
The prosecutors consider that, as result of the two traffic accidents, Silviu Ionescu announced the police with regard to the fact that the Audi A6 was stolen from the Embassy of Romania after 2:00, situation which does not correspond to the reality.
Silviu Ionescu was called back from Singapore at the beginning of this year. When coming back to Romania, Silviu Ionescu denied that he was behind the wheel, showing that the embassy car had been stolen before the accident.
In parallel , Silviu Ionescu lodged a request with the Court of Appeal Bucharest to require the annulment of the international mandate of arrest issued on his name by the authorities in Singapore, but the tribunal rejected the action.