Why cabby kept taxi receipt
Mr Neo, who usually throws away receipts, said he kept it this time because he 'felt weird when he (the passenger) asked how to contact the police'.
He said he had thought of reporting the incident to the police, but decided against it, and brushed it off until he received a call from his company about a week ago.
'They said the police wanted me to help with investigations,' said the 50-year-old, who went to the Traffic Police Headquarters in Ubi to give his statement.
Dr Ionescu told reporters he had discovered his Audi A6 missing at about 3am, after walking out of his embassy at Jalan Harom Setangkai, near Farrer Road. Shortly before 4am, he lodged a police report about the missing vehicle.
He claimed to have parked the car outside the gates at 1.30am after visiting a karaoke lounge in Peace Centre to meet some businessmen. Several hours after he lodged the police report, the car was found outside a factory in Sungei Kadut Avenue in Kranji.
When contacted, the police said investigations were still on-going.
The police had earlier said they had 'not ruled out any suspect surfaced in the course of our investigations'. The whereabouts of Dr Ionescu, who is believed to have left Singapore three days after the accident, remains unclear.
Attempts to contact him on both his Singapore mobile phone, and at one of his residences in Romania have drawn a blank.
The embassy's economic counsellor, Mr Alexandru Nicole Coseru, told The Straits Times that his colleague was back in Romania because he was ill and suffering from diabetes. He does not know his colleague's exact whereabouts.
