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.
\nErika 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.
\nShe held a pen and moved his hand forward to no response.
\n\u201cUncle, are you listening? You need to sign,\u201d she said, according to the security video, suggesting she sign for him.
\n\u201cHe doesn\u2019t say anything, that\u2019s just how he is,\u201d she said, adding, \u201cIf you\u2019re not okay, I\u2019m going to take you to the hospital.\u201d
\nBank staff became suspicious as the man\u2019s 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.
\nHer lawyer argued that the man died at the bank but a police forensic analysis determined he had died earlier, while lying down.
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