WATCH: Woman Brings Dead Uncle To The Bank To Get A Loan, Makes Him Sign Documents
A Brazilian woman brought her dead uncle to the bank in an attempt to secure a loan in his name.
On Tuesday, a woman named Erika de Sousa Vieira Nunes was arrested after wheeling her dead uncle, Paulo Roberto Braga, 68, to a bank in Rio de Janeiro to get him to sign a $3,400 loan, according to the New York Post.
In a video circulating online, Nunes seemingly tries to speak with her uncle as if he were alive, lifting his limp hand and drooping head using her hands.
"Uncle Paulo, are you listening? You need to sign. You need to sign, if you don't, we can't get it. What I can do, I do. I can't sign it for you," Nunes said in the viral clip, per Al Jazeera's English translation.
"Hold it. Sign it [the loan documents] to not give us more headaches."
However, the bank employee noticed something odd and told Nunes, "I don't think he is well. Indeed, he is not well. I don't think he is OK."
The employee also noted how Braga looked "very pale," but Nunes argued that her uncle was just like that.
A day after the bank employee's recording went viral, a new video surfaced. This time, Nunes was caught on the surveillance camera arriving at the bank by taxi. The timestamp in the CCTV footage showed they arrived around 1 p.m. local time.
Her uncle, who was seated next to the rideshare driver, was removed from the front passenger seat and placed in a wheelchair. Per the New York Post, Nunes insisted that she did not know Braga was dead when she took him to the bank.
However, the police discovered in the autopsy report that the old man died between 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. local time on Tuesday due to respiratory aspiration of stomach and heart failure.
His toxicology tests are still pending.
Meanwhile, Nunes, who allegedly suffers from mental health issues per her lawyer Ana Carla de Souza Correa, is now faced with charges of desecration of a corpse and theft by way of fraud.
"Erika undergoes psychological treatment and takes prescribed medications. I believe she was having a breakdown at that moment because of the medications," the lawyer said of her client.
"She appeared visibly disturbed."
