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The Bucharest Court of Appeals Thursday overruled the Romanian former envoy Silviu Ionescu’s request to cancel an international arrest warrant issued against him by Singaporean authorities, after he was held responsible for a fatal car accident in Bukit Panjang in December 2009.

Singapore has suspended the arrest warrant for Romania’s former envoy Silviu Ionescu over disagreement on the interpretation of the Vienna Convention article regarding diplomatic immunity, Singapore’s Foreign Minister George Yeo said Monday in Parliament, newspaper Straits Times reported.

Romanian judges on Monday forbade national Antal Vasile to leave the country based on a European arrest warrant issued by Spanish authorities, despite the fact the man claims he never left Romania.

One of the leaders of Rroma people in Italy, Costica Argint, who met with Romanian Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu Wednesday in Rome, is internationally wanted, but cannot be arrested as he obtained political asylum in Italy.