Rio cop reportedly confesses to love triangle killing of Greek ambassador to Brazil
A Rio de Janeiro police officer has admitted killing Greece's ambassador to Brazil possibly at the behest of the diplomat’s Brazilian wife with whom he was having an affair, Reuters reported Friday, citing a Brazilian TV station. Kyriakos Amiridis, 59, was last seen Monday night, the police said in a statement. A burned body the police believe is the diplomat's was found inside his torched car in Rio. Police and Rio state security officials declined to comment on the Globo report and their investigation. Rio de Janeiro police investigator Giniton Lages told The Associated Press that blood spots believed to be those of the ambassador were found on a sofa inside the home of the wife. Another investigator said the ambassador and his wife fought three days before Christmas. According to the Greek Embassy website in Brazil, Amiridis started his career as diplomat in 1985 in Athens and became Greece's top diplomat in Brazil in 2016. He earlier was Greece's ambassador to Libya...