DHAKA: Brazilian police are questioning the widow of the Greek ambassador to that country, along with a military police officer described as her lover and another man in the death of the diplomat.

Ambassador Kyriakos Amiridis, 59, had been missing since Monday, Evaristo Pontes Magalhaes, a police investigator in the Baixada Fluminense state, said Friday at a news conference.

A burned car with a charred body inside was found in Nova Iguaçu, a town outside Rio de Janeiro, on Thursday and the body was identified as Amiridis on Friday, he said.

Being questioned in the killing are the widow, Francoise De Souza Oliveira; military police officer Sergio Gomes Moreira Filho; and the officer’s cousin, Eduardo Moreira de Melo, Pontes said.

Pontes said investigators think Francoise De Souza Oliveira ordered the killing. No charges have been filed, reports the CNN.

“It was a crime of passion committed by Ms. Francoise and the military policeman,” Pontes said.

“They were in a romantic relationship between them,” Pontes said. “She only told us that her lover – let’s call him that -- the military policeman, was the author of the crime, executed this crime against her husband. She denies taking part.”

Citing police, the state-run news agency Agencia Brasil reported the officer killed Amiridis inside the ambassador's home in Nova Iguaçu. With the help of the officer’s cousin, the officer wrapped the body in carpet and put it inside a car, Agencia Brasil reported.

BDST: 1932 HRS, DEC 31, 2016
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