Cops say officer has admitted to killing Greek ambassador to Brazil following affair with his wife
Rio police said Sergio Gomez Moreira, 29, admitted to killing Kyriakos Amiridis, 59, after having an affair with his 40-year-old wife Francoise
POLICE say an officer has admitted to killing a Greek diplomat after having an affair with his wife.
Kyriakos Amiridis, 59, was Greece’s ambassador to Brazil and was killed on Monday by policeman Sergio Gomez Moreira, 29, in a murder plot investigators say was hatched by the diplomat’s wife Francoise Amiritis, 40, (née de Souza Oliveira) and her cop lover.
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5Evaristo Pontes, from the Rio de Janeiro police force, told a news conference that Amiridis' charred body was found in the city on Thursday in his burned-out rental car – a day after his wife declared him missing.
Police said both Oliveira and Moreira both admitted to having an affair but she denies any role in the murder of her husband, who is understood to have been stabbed to death.
The pair are in custody along with Moreira's 24-year-old cousin, Eduardo Moreira de Melo, who allegedly also took part.
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According to the homicide division chief, Oliveira denied participating in the murder itself, but confessed she knew of the crime.
Amiridis, who was named ambassador this year, had been on a family vacation with his wife in the north of Rio de Janeiro since December 21. They had been due to fly back to the capital Brasilia on January 9.
His wife had originally told police that he had left the Rio apartment they were staying in, taken the car and not returned.
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5But her version had contradictions, and after Amiridis's body was found in the burned-out car under a bridge, police took Oliveira in for more questioning, and also detained Moreira.
Traces of blood were reportedly found on a sofa in the apartment Amiridis and Oliveira had been using, leading investigators to believe he had been killed there, then his body was placed in the rental car and driven to the spot it was found.
Pontes said that Oliveira had offered his cousin the equivalent of around £20,000 to help with murdering the ambassador.
Moreira acknowledged that he and Amiridis had had a physical fight, and that he had strangled the ambassador in self-defence.
Amiridis had previously served as Greece's consul general in Rio from 2001 to 2004, where he met Oliveira – the couple have a 10-year-old daughter.
The government in Athens said a Greek police team was headed for Brazil to take part in the investigation while Greece's ambassador in Argentina was traveling to Brasilia.
In a letter to the Greek government, Brazilian President Michel Temer sent his condolences and conveyed his government's commitment to conducting a “rigorous” investigation.
Rivaldo Barbosa, from Rio’s homicide division, said: “The Brazilian people do not accept this type of behaviour and we apologize to the entire Greek population.”
He called the murder “isolated” and a “crime of passion” that he said has nothing to do with Rio's elevated levels of violence.
Rio de Janeiro, though picturesque, has a reputation as a dangerous place. The 2016 Olympic host city has seen crime rates soar in recent months, fuelled by gang violence.
Hit hard by Brazil's worst recession in more than a century, Rio de Janeiro state is facing bankruptcy and struggling to deal with the violent crime that has long dogged the area.
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