A woman was arrested Tuesday after taking a dead body to a bank in South America and attempting to obtain a loan in the deceased’s name.
Brazilian police say Paulo Roberto Braga, 68, was rolled off a wheelchair by Erica de Souza Vieira Nunez, 42, at a bank in Rio de Janeiro, as if he were still alive. He then announced that the attempt had been unsuccessful. She manipulated the puppet to get his signature for a $3,234 loan.
according to According to Brazilian news outlet G1, bank employees immediately became suspicious of Nunez’s actions. After all, there was some clear evidence that something was wrong.
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picture In footage of the incident captured by a bank employee, Nunes can be seen trying to hold Braga’s head upright and engaging in an apparently one-sided conversation.
“Uncle, are you listening? You have to sign it. If you don’t sign it, we can’t do anything,” Nunez can be heard saying in his native language. “I can’t sign it. I’ll do what I can.”
“You’re gripping the chair really hard over there,” Nunes says to the corpse. She also asked one of her tellers, “Wasn’t he holding the door there just now?”
Nunes expresses dissatisfaction with Braga’s lack of cooperation, saying, “Please sign so I don’t have any more headaches. I can’t take it anymore.”
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offered “I don’t think this is legal. He doesn’t look good. He’s very pale,” one teller said in the video, according to USA Today.
“That’s the kind of person he is,” says Nunez, who claimed to be the dead man’s niece.
The stern borrower then suggests to Braga, mouth wide open and eyes cloudy, that if he doesn’t feel well, he’ll go to the hospital.
A bank employee eventually called the police, who quickly took Nunes into custody.
Police Chief Fabio Souza of Police Station 34 Confirmed Nunes was charged with attempted theft by fraud and abuse of a corpse, CNN Brazil reported. If convicted of the latter charge, Nunes could face up to three years in prison and a fine.
Nunes reportedly showed no remorse during an interview with police and told officials that Braga’s card expired while he was at the bank.It’s partly the medical examiner’s fault that the police don’t accept her story.
signs found The elderly man had been dead for at least two hours before experiencing any post-mortem banking.
According to reports, authorities are still waiting to confirm the cause of Braga’s death and have indicated they intend to launch a murder investigation if foul play is suspected.
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