Woman who wheeled a corpse into bank to co-sign a loan arrested
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The man had died at least two hours earlier before a woman brought him into a bank branch, police say.
A Brazilian woman has been arrested after she wheeled a corpse into a bank, presumably hoping it would help her secure a loan.
Érika de Souza Vieira Nunes was captured on video by bank employees wheeling the body of Paulo Roberta Braga into a Rio De Janeiro bank branch in a wheelchair.
In the video, Nunes is heard calling Braga her uncle as she speaks to the body and props up his head, reports The Independent.
“Sign so you don’t give me any more headaches, I can’t take it anymore,” she said to the body.
“I don’t think he’s well. He doesn’t look well at all,” one of the employees can be heard saying, according to The Guardian.
It’s alleged that Nunes was trying to use her deceased relative to help her secure a loan for a few thousand dollars. He had died just hours before at the age of 68.
The bank staffers were so concerned about Braga’s health that they called police. When law enforcement showed up, they found that Nunes had brought a dead man into the bank.
Nunes now faces charges of violating a corpse and attempted theft through fraud, according to Rio newspaper O Dia.
