This is the moment a woman took a dead body to a bank and allegedly tried to get it to “authorize” a loan in her name while holding his head in front of suspicious staff who asked why he was so pale.
The bank employees began filming the couple and ended up calling an ambulance and the police as she used her hand to hold the deceased pensioner’s head up and said: ‘Man, are you listening? You have to sign it. I can’t sign for you.
The footage showed the woman telling the dead man to hold onto her pen tightly as she placed it between her fingers and encouraged him to sign a paper at the bank branch in Bangu, a neighborhood in the western part of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. .
A bank employee who witnessed the scene told the woman: ‘I don’t think this is legal. It doesn’t look good. He is very pale.
She replied: “He is like that” before telling the dead old man: “If you are not well, I can take you to the hospital.” Do you want to go back to the hospital again?
The bank employees began filming the couple and ended up calling an ambulance and the police as she used her hand to hold the deceased pensioner’s head up and said: ‘Man, are you listening? You have to sign it. I can’t sign for you’
The footage showed the woman telling the dead man to hold onto her pen tightly as she placed it between her fingers and encouraged him to sign a paper at the bank branch in Bangu, a neighborhood in the western part of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The video showed the dead man’s head moving back and forth before she grabbed him by the neck with her left hand from behind.
She urged him: “Sign here and stop giving me a headache,” but was met with a logical silence from the man with whom she intended to have a conversation.
The surreal incident occurred yesterday afternoon.
Paramedics called to the scene confirmed that the deceased pensioner, Paulo Roberto Braga, 68, had died a few hours earlier.
The woman who took him to the bank, Erika de Souza Vieira Nunes, was arrested at the scene and told police she was his niece and caregiver.
Officials appear to have given signs they are related and are said to be checking CCTV cameras inside and outside the bank to see if Braga’s relative was alone or with alleged accomplices amid suspicions they could be trying with organized fraud.
Autopsy results to establish the cause of death have not yet been made public.
Police Chief Fabio Luiz confirmed after the arrest that Braga was already dead when he was taken to the bank.
He added: “The investigation continues to identify other family members and find out if he was alive when the loan was arranged and when it dates back.”
Local reports said the loan was for 17,000 Brazilian reais, the equivalent of about £2,500.
Last July, two men were jailed in Ireland for trying to use the body of a dead man to deceive a post office and claim their pension.
Declan Haughney, 41, was sentenced to two years and Gareth Coakley, 37, was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
The incident occurred in Carlow town in January 2022.
During the trial at Carlow Circuit Criminal Court CCTV footage was shown of both men dragging the lifeless body of Peadar Doyle, 66, who was wearing a hat, from his home to the post office.
Reports at the time described Haughney as the dead man’s nephew.