Brazilian policeman confessed to murdering Greece’s ambassador to Brazil (Kyriakos Amiridis, 59),at the direction of the diplomat’s Brazilian wife (Françoise) with whom the officer was romantically involved.
His Brazilian wife and the mother of their 10-year-old daughter, reported him missing to police on Wednesday.
But in a twist of event that shocked the investigators, Officer Sergio Moreira, 29, confessed to police on Friday that he killed the ambassador late Monday night in the Rio de Janeiro home the Amiridises on the instruction of his wife, Françoise, 40.
Ambassador’s wife and the police officer are now in custody. Police have also detained a cousin of the officer, who Magalhaes said acted as a lookout while the crime was committed and helped carry the body from the house with the promise that he would be paid 80,000 reais (about $25,000).