The ex-boyfriend of Cecilia Haddad charged with murder, two months after the discovery of a body in the Sydney River

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July 10, 2018 14:47:49

Police in Rio de Janeiro accused of murdering the ex-boyfriend of Brazilian Cecilia Haddad, two months after the body of the business woman was found in the Lane Cove River in Sydney

40, was arrested by the authorities in Rio de Janeiro on weekends, after being found in the apartment of a parent

He had left Sydney for her native Brazil shortly after her body was discovered by the NSW police in April. Rio told the ABC that Mr. Santoro had been charged with murder and that investigations were continuing

It is understood that the NSW police – who investigated the death of Ms. Haddad – did not go to court. has not been formally notified by its counterparts in Brazil. Mrs. Haddad's body was found in the Lane Cove River in northern Sydney on April 29, just one day after her friend.

Suspicions arose immediately when Mrs. Haddad, who was living in Ryde, was found fully clothed, with weights in each pocket of her cargo pants.

The 38-year-old body was found in water Mrs. Haddad worked as a supply chain manager for the BHP Billiton mining company in Western Australia before moving to NSW in 2016. [19659005] In Sydney, she ran a consulting business.

The charge comes a day after Mrs. Haddad's father gave a tearful television interview, in which he recounted the details of his last phone call with his daughter.

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