A Brazilian woman recently shocked many people after she wheeled a dead body into a bank.
The woman reportedly wheeled
the corpse of an elderly man into a Rio de Janeiro bank on Tuesday, April 16,
to try to get him to co-sign on a loan.
The bank customer, identified
as Erika de Souza Vieira Nunes, was captured on video standing next to the deceased
seated in a chair and seemingly holding up his drooping head.
The footage captured Nunes
talking to the dead man, whom she addressed as her “uncle,” and asking him to
sign financial documents that would allow her to take out a $3,400 loan.
“Uncle, are you listening? You
need to sign [the loan contract]. If you don’t sign, there’s no way, because I
can’t sign for you,” Nunes says in the video, while pushing a pen between his
limp fingers and instructing him to hold it “hard.”
“Sign so you don’t give me any
more headaches, I can’t take it anymore,” she adds.
When a bank worker tries to
point out that the man’s color looks off and he appears “not well,” Nunes
dismisses his concerns.
“He is like that. He doesn’t
say anything,” Nunes says. “Uncle, do you want to go to the [hospital] again?”
Bank staffers quickly called
the police, who arrived and arrested Nunes.
It was later determined that
the deceased, identified as 68-year-old Paulo Roberto Braga, had been dead for
several hours before his trip to the bank.
“She tried to pretend to get
him to sign the loan. He already entered the bank dead,” Police Chief Fábio
Luiz told TV Globo. “The main thing is to continue the investigation to
identify other family members, and find out more about this loan.”
Cops said they will look into the circumstances of Braga’s death and will try to determine whether Nunes is actually his niece, and whether other relatives were involved in the alleged attempt to commit bank fraud.
Nunes could face charges of
theft through fraud, or embezzlement, and abuse of corpse.
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