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  • Policeman ‘killed Greek Ambassador’ at wife’s request- BBC Reports

    Policeman ‘killed Greek Ambassador’ at wife’s request- BBC Reports

    Greek ambassador rio 1Police in Brazil say the Greek ambassador to the country was killed by a local police officer who was having an affair with the envoy’s wife.

    Kyriakos Amiridis had been missing since Monday. His body was found in a burnt-out car on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro on Thursday.

    Police say the ambassador’s Brazilian wife, Francoise Amiridis, plotted the murder with her lover.

    Sergio Gomes Moreira Filho confessed to strangling him to death, police said.

    Ms. Amiridis, 40, has been detained along with Mr. Moreira, 29, and his cousin, Eduardo Melo.

    Mr. Melo is said to have been paid about 80,000 reais ($25,000; £20,000) to act as a lookout.

    ‘Crime of passion’

    The three suspects have been questioned and will be held in police custody for another 30 days.

    Investigator Evaristo Pontes Magalhaes described the murder as “a tragic, cowardly act,” which police are treating as “a crime of passion”.

    “Francoise initially denied the facts. She said she had nothing to do with that. We managed to make her see that she had no alternative and that there was no point in continuing to deny it,” said Mr. Magalhaes at a press conference.

    “She fell into contradictions, burst into tears and began to say that the police officer [Sergio Moreira] had carried out her husband’s murder,” he added.

    Mr. Magalhaes said Mr. Moreira had a fight with the ambassador and ended up killing him when he went to confront the diplomat about claims of violence against his wife.

    He said he acted in self-defence. But Brazilian police have dismissed his statement.

    They say the policeman’s cousin confessed to moving the ambassador’s body and gave full details of the plot to murder Mr. Amiridis, implicating both Mr. Moreira and Mrs. Amiridis.

    Charred body

    The 59-year-old ambassador had traveled from Brasilia to the city of Nova Iguacu, north of Rio, to spend the Christmas and New Year holidays there with his wife and her parents.

    The couple had been living together for 15 years and their daughter is 10 years old, local reports said.

    Mrs. Amiridis reported her husband missing on Wednesday.

    She told police that he had left on Monday in a car he had rented. The burnt-out vehicle was found on Thursday under a flyover on one of the main access roads to Rio with a body inside.

    The body was burned beyond recognition, but police said it was that of Mr. Amiridis.

    Investigators also said that they had found blood stains on the sofa in the house where the couple was staying and say he was probably stabbed to death there.

    Mr. Amiridis served as consul in Rio de Janeiro between 2001 and 2004 and returned to the country as the ambassador earlier this year.

  • Body found in burnt-out car in Rio ‘believed to be Greek ambassador’

    Body found in burnt-out car in Rio ‘believed to be Greek ambassador’

    Greek ambassador rioKyriakos Amiridis last seen on Monday and license plates on the car match his rental vehicle, according to reports

    Brazilian police suspect a body discovered inside a charred vehicle in Rio de Janeiro is Greece’s ambassador to Brazil who went missing three days ago, it has been reported.

    A police spokesman could not be immediately reached for comment on the report by TV channel Globo.

    Ambassador Kyriakos Amiridis, 59, was last seen on Monday evening leaving the home of friends of his Brazilian wife in a suburb of Rio’s metropolitan area, police had said earlier on Thursday. A state police official said the ambassador’s wife reported him as missing on Wednesday.

    Globo showed images of the burnt-out white car in the Nova Iguaçu neighborhood where the ambassador went missing. The station reported that the license plates on the car matched those of Amiridis’s rental vehicle.

    An official at the Greek embassy in Brasília would not confirm the ambassador was missing, saying only that he was on vacation in Rio and expected to return to the capital on 9 January.

    According to Guardian, Rio police inspector Evaristo Pontes had earlier told the Folha de São Paulo newspaper that he did not believe the ambassador was kidnapped. “We’re following some leads, but not that one,” he said. “If it had been [a kidnapping], those who took him would have made contact by now.”

    Amiridis previously served as Greece’s consul general in Rio from 2001 to 2004. More recently he was Greece’s ambassador to Libya from 2012 until he took the top Brazil post at the beginning of 2016.

    Brazil’s foreign ministry said it had no comment on the case, other than to say it was being fully pursued by police, while Greece’s foreign ministry had no comment.