'HE'S VERY PALE': Woman allegedly wheels dead man into bank to co-sign loan
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A woman in Brazil is alleged to have wheeled a dead man into a bank in an attempt to co-sign a loan.
On Tuesday, shocked bank employees captured on video the woman holding up the head of the corpse while placing a pen in his hand and encouraging his lifeless body to sign a bank form.
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Workers at Itau Unibanco became suspicious when the dead man didn’t respond to the woman’s commands.
“I don’t think this is legal,” a bank employee told the woman, reports The Daily Mail. “He doesn’t look well. He’s very pale.”
“He’s like that,” the woman replied. She then asked the unresponsive man if he was not feeling well.
“If you’re not well, I can take you to the hospital. Do you want to go back to the hospital again?”
In the video, the woman stabilizes the corpse’s head by grabbing the neck with one hand.
“Sign here and stop giving me a headache,” the woman said, with no response from the man.
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Police and medics were called to the bank. It was determined the man had died hours earlier.
The woman, identified as Erika de Souza Vieira Nunes, was apparently the caregiver to her 68-year-old uncle, Paulo Roberto Braga.
Police arrested Nunes and charged her with violating a corpse and attempted theft through fraud, according to the Rio newspaper O Dia.
Police say she attempted to take out a loan of 17,000 Brazilian reais (C$4,466).
Investigators are also trying to determine if any other family members were involved in the scheme.
This incident a month after two Ohio women were charged for allegedly using a dead man’s body to withdraw money from his bank account.
Cops said that on March 4, the body of Douglas Layman, 80, was placed in the passenger seat of his vehicle by the two women and a third person. The women drove to a drive-thru bank teller to withdraw his money.
Police say the teller was unaware the man was dead and handed the women $900. They then drove the body to a local hospital and left it there without identifying him to medical personnel.
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