Ionescu leaving Bucharest's courthouse. - Filepix
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.
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