Kyriakos Amiridis

Kyriakos Amiridis (, 30 September 1957 – 26 December 2016) was a Greek career diplomat who served as the Ambassador of Greece to Libya and Brazil. He was reported missing on 28 December 2016 while serving as ambassador to Brazil and his body was found near Rio de Janeiro the next day.

Personal life In 2004 Amiridis married Françoise de Sousa Oliveira, a Brazilian national, and together they had one daughter.

Death Amiridis was reported missing while on vacation in Rio de Janeiro in late December 2016. He was last heard from on the evening of 26 December when he sent a message from his phone. His wife Françoise reported him missing two days later and claimed that she had been unable to contact him.

On 29 December, Brazilian police said a homicide team had launched an investigation into the ambassador's disappearance. Hours later, a body was found in a burnt-out car underneath an overpass of the Arco Metropolitano do Rio de Janeiro highway near Nova Iguaçu. The vehicle had been rented by Amiridis and the remains were positively identified as those of the ambassador.

On 30 December, Amiridis's wife Françoise and two other people were detained in connection with the ambassador's apparent murder. One of the apprehended figures, military police officer Sérgio Gomes Moreira, is suspected of having been having an affair with Françoise; he confessed to the murder. The roles of the wife and the second man are still unclear. Police believe Amiridis was murdered in an apartment owned by the ambassador in Nova Iguaçu, where the couple and their daughter were staying for the Christmas holiday. Blood stains were found on a sofa in the apartment.

On 29 August 2021, Amiridis's wife was found guilty of planning to murder her husband and given a 31-year prison sentence, while Sérgio Gomes Moreira was sentenced to 22 years in prison after confessing to having committed the murder. The judge described the assassination as "bestial".