A Brazilian woman has been arrested after brazenly wheeling the fresh corpse of her uncle into a bank branch where she tried to get him to co-sign a loan.
A Brazilian woman has been arrested after brazenly wheeling the fresh corpse of her uncle into a bank branch where she tried to get him to co-sign a loan with her, in a scene straight out of Weekend at Bernie’s.
Erika de Souza Vieira Nunes, 42, pushed the lifeless body of Roberto Braga, 68, into a bank branch in the Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Bangu on Tuesday where the bizarre scene played out.
The woman was seen in shocking viral footage, first aired by Brazilian broadcaster TV Globo, standing at the teller’s desk next to the dead man in a wheelchair asking him to sign financial documents that would allow her to take out a loan for 7000 reais ($2080).
Uncle, are you listening? You need to sign [the loan contract],“ Ms Nunes says in the video, while thrusting a pen between his limp fingers and instructing him to hold it “hard”.
“If you don’t sign, there’s no way, because I can’t sign for you. Sign so you don’t give me any more headaches, I can’t take it anymore.”
A concerned bank worker says, “He doesn’t look well. He’s very pale.”
Ms Nunes dismisses his concerns.
“He is like that,” she says. “He doesn’t say anything. Uncle, do you want to go to the [hospital] again?”
Suspicious bank staff began filming the incident before calling an ambulance.
Parademics soon confirmed Mr Braga had died before he was wheeled into the bank, and police arrested Ms Nunes.
“She tried to pretend to get him to sign the loan,” Rio de Janeiro police chief Fábio Luis Souza told TV Globo. “He already entered the bank dead.”
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