Spirescu, 30, arrived in Britain on New Year’s Day to be greeted at Luton airport by Labour MP Keith Vaz – the chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee.
Spirescu was one of the first to arrive as controls on migrants from Romania and Bulgaria lapsed.
He reassured Mr Vaz that he intended to find work as soon as possible and days later he had joined a team of fellow Eastern Europeans washing cars in the Bedfordshire town of Biggleswade.
But yesterday workers at the car wash in Foundry Lane told how he had vanished.
'He worked last Friday for the very first time and that was when he was photographed by the Daily Mail as the guys showed him the ropes and welcomed him to the country,' said a source at the car wash last night.
'He did
a full day and then came back to the house we all share in the town.
'The
next day he said he needed to take the day off and was going to see his brother
in London.
'On
Saturday night he came back to the house and grabbed his bag and possessions
and just left.
'We do
not know where he is or what he is doing now and can't reach him on his
Romanian mobile because he has turned it off to save on roaming charges.
'Basically
he came, car washed for a day and quit.'
Staff at
the car wash categorically denied that Victor had been sacked.
However,
news of Victor's decision to call an end to his fledgling car washing career
was mired in mystery last night as one newspaper claimed he had been fired
because of the publicity surrounding his arrival in Britain.
He told
The Times newspaper his boss had become irritated with frequent phone calls
from the press, from Mr Spirescu's family and also his high media profile.
Earlier
this week it emerged that Victor had a previous conviction for assaulting his
former girlfriend in Bucharest in 2009.
It was
reported he had knocked the woman - named as 'Ana' - to the ground and punched
her after she ended their relationship.
When
questioned he refused to deny the incident and would only say: 'The past is the
past - but we live in the present.'
Victor
is now in a relationship with a 19-year-old Roma woman called Catalina who has
remained at the couple's bleak farmhouse home in the remote Transylvanian
village of Pelisor.
