WHEN Romanian driver Marius Trusca first heard from former diplomat Silviu Ionescu that the embassy's Audi A6 car had been stolen, he was worried as the car was his responsibility.

But anxiety turned to confusion six hours later when his boss told him to search for the car only in the area just outside the embassy - around Jalan Harom Setangkai, the small lane off Farrer Road that leads to the embassy.

'We did not go out of the way,' he told the State Coroner yesterday at an inquiry into the death of a Malaysian man, who had been knocked down along Bukit Panjang Road by the embassy's Audi last December.

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