Woman Takes Her Dying Uncle On Wheelchair To The Bank, Forces Him To “Sign Off” Loan in Her Name

On Tuesday, April 16, a Brazilian woman apparently brought an elderly man who was nearly dead into a bank in Rio de Janeiro in an attempt to convince him to co-sign a loan.

The man was shown on film standing next to the bank customer, Erika de Souza Vieira Nunes , who was seated in a chair and appeared to be holding up his drooping head.

Nunes was seen in the video addressing the deceased man as her “uncle” and pleading with him to sign financial documents so that she could obtain a $3,400 loan.

Workers at the bank immediately alerted the police, who came and took Nunes into custody.

Later on, it was discovered that the deceased, Paulo Roberto Braga, 68, had been dead for a number of hours prior to his visitation to the bank.

“Uncle, are you listening? You need to sign [the loan contract]. If you don’t sign, there’s no way, because I can’t sign for you,” Nunes says in the video, while pushing a pen between his limp fingers and instructing him to hold it “hard.”

“Sign so you don’t give me any more headaches, I can’t take it anymore,” she adds.

When a bank worker tries to point out that the man’s color looks off and he appears “not well,” Nunes dismisses his concerns.

“He is like that. He doesn’t say anything,” Nunes says. “Uncle, do you want to go to the [hospital] again?”

Bank staffers quickly called the police, who arrived and arrested Nunes.

It was later determined that the deceased, identified as 68-year-old Paulo Roberto Braga, had been dead for several hours before his trip to the bank.

“She tried to pretend to get him to sign the loan. He already entered the bank dead,” Police Chief Fábio Luiz told TV Globo. “The main thing is to continue the investigation to identify other family members, and find out more about this loan.”

Authorities said they will investigate Braga’s death and try to find out if Nunes is really his niece and if any other family members were part of the purported attempt at bank fraud.

Nunes may be prosecuted for theft of funds, theft by deception, and misuse of a corpse.

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