In a plot-twist worthy of a telenovela, a policeman from Rio de Janeiro has confessed to murdering the Greek ambassador to Brazil, who is said to have been his lover’s husband.<br /><br /> Police say Sergio Gomes Moreira Filho, 29, admitted he’d strangled Kyriakos Amiridis to death at the direction of the diplomat’s Brazilian wife.<br /><br /> Investigator Evaristo Magalhaes labelled the killing “a crime of passion.”<br /><br /> The 59-year-old ambassador was missing from Monday to Thursday (December 26-29), when his body was found in a burnt-out car on the outskirts of the city.<br /><br /> Both Moreira and Amiridis’ wife Françoise have been taken into custody.<br /><br /> They are said to have plotted the crime a few days in advance.<br /><br /> Moreira’s cousin has also been detained under suspicion of acting as a lookout while the murder was committed and of helping to carry the body from the house for a promised sum of 24,000 euros.<br />
