Greek ambassador to Brazil murdered by wife's cop lover: police

The burned-out rental car of missing Greek ambassador to Brazil Kyriakos Amiridis, at a parking lot outside the police station in Belford Roxo, in Rio de Janeiro, on December 30, 2016, a day after it was found with a body inside.-AFP

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Greece's ambassador to Brazil was murdered in a plot hatched by his Brazilian wife and her police officer lover, who confessed to the crime, officials said.

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.