A woman brought a 68-year-old man in a wheelchair into a bank branch and tried to convince him to sign a loan, but he had been dead for hours, Brazilian police said on Wednesday.
Erika Vieira Nunes wheeled the corpse into a bank in a Rio suburb on Tuesday, telling the cashier that her “uncle” requested a loan of 17,000 reais ($3,250), according to surveillance camera footage.
She forced the man to grab a pen and move his hand forward to sign the paper loan, but the man was unresponsive.
"Are you listening, Uncle?" "You need to sign," she stated, implying that she would sign for him.
"He doesn't say anything, that's just how he is," she stated. She went on to explain, "If you're not okay, I'm going to take you to the hospital."
Bank employees grew suspicious when the man's head kept tilting back when the woman stopped holding it. The staff called local police, who arrested her on the spot for fraud. The body was transferred to a nearby mortuary.
Her lawyer claimed the man died at the bank, but a police forensic analysis revealed he died earlier, while lying down.
Rio de Janeiro: Woman enters bank with corpse in wheelchair to sign for loan
