Woman takes dead man into bank on wheelchair to sign loan
Footage showed the woman telling the dead man to grip hold of his pen hard as she placed it between his fingers and encouraged him to sign a piece of paper at the bank. PHOTO | COURTESY | TWITTER
What you need to know:
- Bank staff became suspicious as the man's head kept falling back when the woman stopped holding it and they called the police, who arrested her on the spot on fraud charges. The corpse was taken to the morgue.
A woman brought a 68-year-old man in a wheelchair into a bank branch and tried to get him to sign for a loan, but he had been dead for hours, Brazilian police said on Wednesday.
Erika Vieira Nunes wheeled the cadaver into the bank in a Rio suburb on Tuesday and told the teller the man wanted a loan for 17,000 reais ($3,250), security camera video showed.
She held a pen and moved his hand forward to no response.
"Uncle, are you listening? You need to sign," she said, according to the security video, suggesting she sign for him.
"He doesn't say anything, that's just how he is," she said, adding, "If you're not okay, I'm going to take you to the hospital."
Bank staff became suspicious as the man's head kept falling back when the woman stopped holding it and they called the police, who arrested her on the spot on fraud charges. The corpse was taken to the morgue.
Her lawyer argued that the man died at the bank but a police forensic analysis determined he had died earlier, while lying down.
