The events occurred in Rio de Janeiro. Erika de Souza Vieira Nunes was arrested. A video of the gruesome fraud was also released: “Uncle, are you listening to me? You have to sign it. I can’t sign for you!”, says the woman. The victim is a 68 year old man.
Two frames of the video taken by the bank’s internal cameras
It is a truly macabre episode that comes from Bangu, a quiet neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil: a woman transported a dead body in bank and tried to get him to “co-sign” a loan in his name. Erika de Souza Vieira Nunes she has now been arrested for attempting a fraud creepy to say the least.
As seen in the video taken by the bank’s CCTV cameras, the woman is next to the man, on the wheelchair, is trying to make him hold the pen to sign the document. “Uncle, are you listening to me? You have to sign it. I can’t sign for you! “, He says. The agency employees, however, immediately became suspicious:“ I don’t think this is legal. It doesn’t look good. He is very pale…,” said a worried bank employee. The woman replied: “He’s just like that,” then she turned to the alleged uncle and said: “If you’re not well, I can take you to the hospital. Do you want to go back to the hospital again?”
In the movie the man’s head is seen swinging back and forth, before the woman grabs his neck and exclaims: “Sign here and stop giving me a headache.” Eventually the bank called the police. The man in the wheelchair, 68 years old, probably was dead a few hours ago. Her name was Paulo Roberto Braga. “He tried to pretend that he was the one who signed,” Commissioner Fábio Luiz explained about the suspect.
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According to local media the loan the woman’s request was 17,000 Brazilian Reais, which is equivalent to around 3 thousand euros. “Investigations continue to identify other family members and to find out whether he was alive when the loan was granted and when the alleged agreement dates back to,” the commissioner added.
