The wife of the Greek ambassador Kyriakos Amiridis in Brazil plotted his death with a policeman

The wife of the Greek ambassador to Brazil, Kyriakos Amiridis, is accused of planning the death of her husband along with a military police officer who would be his mistress, according to civilian police investigators.


Police confirmed this December 30 that the charred body found in a car under the bridge of a highway in Rio de Janeiro belongs to the diplomat.

Authorities in Brazil believe that the Greek ambassador who went missing on 26 December has been killed and have named his Brazilian wife, a police officer and another man as suspects in the case. Local police have said that the officer, who was romantically involved with the diplomat’s wife, has confessed to the killing at her direction. 

She told police that Amiridis had left the condominium where the couple were staying in Nova Iguaçu, a town 25 miles inland from Rio de Janeiro, two nights earlier, without saying where he was going. The couple had been together 15 years, and have a 10-year-old daughter.