BUCHAREST, Feb 14 — The former Romanian diplomat convicted for a deadly hit-and-run accident in Singapore has had his sentence doubled to six years by an appeals court in Bucharest yesterday.
Silviu Ionescu was originally sentenced to three years in prison in March last year, more than three years after the incidents on December 15, 2009 where he allegedly drove a black Audi from his embassy and ran over and killed one man, and then knocked into two others while fleeing.
Ionescu was Romania’s charge d’affaires in Singapore at the time, and he fled Singapore soon after the accident.
Ionescu was found guilty of manslaughter, and according to the ruling yesterday, the appeals court also found him guilty of inflicting injuries and fleeing from the location of the crash. — Today
