Greek ambassador to Brazil ‘murdered by wife’s policeman lover’
Kyriakos Amiridis’s charred body was found on Thursday in Rio in his burned-out rental car, a day after his wife, Francoise de Souza Oliveira, declared him missing
A Rio de Janeiro policeman confessed to murdering Greece’s ambassador to Brazil in what investigators called a “cowardly act” carried out at the direction of the diplomat’s Brazilian wife, with whom the officer was romantically involved.
The envoy, Kyriakos Amiridis, 59, was killed on Monday by the officer, Sergio Gomez Moreira, Rio homicide division chief Evaristo Pontes told a news conference.
This was a tragic, cowardly act ... It was a crime of passion
Amiridis’s charred body was found on Thursday in Rio in his burned-out rental car, a day after his wife, Francoise de Souza Oliveira, declared him missing. Oliveira, 40, and Moreira, 29, both admitted to having an affair, police said.
“This was a tragic, cowardly act, but we worked tirelessly to crack this case as soon as possible,” investigator Evaristo Magalhaes Magalhaes told a news conference. “It was a crime of passion.”
Magalhaes said that blood was found on a couch inside the home and the ambassador was likely stabbed to death as no shots were reported in the area. However, he said it was not yet possible to determine the exact cause of death because the policeman had burned the ambassador’s body in an attempt to cover up the crime.
The pair are in custody, along with Moreira’s 24-year-old cousin, Eduardo Moreira de Melo, who allegedly also took part.