Woman arrested after taking corpse to sign bank loan in Brazil

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(Sky News)- A woman has been arrested in Brazil after she brought a 68-year-old man who had been dead for hours into a bank to sign for a loan.

Erika Vieira Nunes wheeled the corpse into the bank in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro and told an employee that the man wanted a loan for 17,000 reais (£2,600), security camera video showed.

She then held a pen to the man saying: "Uncle, are you listening? You need to sign," according to the footage.

"He doesn't say anything, that's just how he is," she said, adding: "If you're not okay, I'm going to take you to the hospital."

Bank staff soon became suspicious as the man's head kept falling back so they called the police who arrested Nunes.

She was charged with vilification of a corpse and attempted theft through fraud, according to the Rio newspaper O Dia.

The man's cause of death is unknown.

"She knew he was dead… he had been dead for at least two hours," Fabio Luiz Souza, an investigating officer told the breakfast news programme, Bom Dia Rio, on Wednesday.

"I have never come across a story like this in 22 years [as a cop]."

He said police were investigating whether Nunes was actually related to the man.

Her lawyer had argued that the man died at the bank but a police forensic analysis determined he had died earlier, while lying down, Reuters reported.

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Comments - 15

anil Friday, 19 April 2024 02:24 PM

greed can't get any crazier than this

last chance Friday, 19 April 2024 02:32 PM

Our boys in Srilanka may fallow this soon.

mohandev Friday, 19 April 2024 02:33 PM

Now that'll be the craze in SL too with many corpses walking into banks to withdraw money or take loans, wow our people will do a damn better job with bank staff help!

joshua Friday, 19 April 2024 02:58 PM

Never heard this kind of a story. What courage to do it.

joshua Friday, 19 April 2024 05:11 PM

Lawyer should be arrested for supporting the robbery for bringing incorrect argument

wickrama wijayasiri Friday, 19 April 2024 05:15 PM

Have learnt from the US. They are parading such a 'corpse' as the president. Better technology has made it possible to fool them all.

World is becoming crazy every day. Friday, 19 April 2024 05:32 PM

This is definitely an incident for the Believe! or not!

Mandayan Friday, 19 April 2024 06:11 PM

She failed to get the ‘support’ of the banker for such fraud!

P Sivam Friday, 19 April 2024 06:51 PM

More like desperation, given the history of Brazil, gang violence, corruption etc. etc

Citizens Friday, 19 April 2024 06:51 PM

World has truly gone mad!!! Never heard such a thing!!! And the Investigating officer's name is Fabio Souza? That name rings a bell..! How strange!

Mohamed Burhan Saturday, 20 April 2024 02:09 AM

Never heard in my life time. Crazy in a crazy world!

Dee Saturday, 20 April 2024 08:13 AM

This woman should be shamed and humiliated by society! Sending her to prison is too good.

Gamini Saturday, 20 April 2024 09:09 AM

If this was in SL, the lady would have walked out with the money with a 10% ( by National Standards set by Kaputa) to the bank staff

Grace Saturday, 20 April 2024 11:55 AM

She is better than those who robbed money our country received from foreign countries to help affected families.

DW Saturday, 20 April 2024 01:52 PM

Sri Lankans have been doing similar things for many decades that they don't even get caught. If she hired a Sri Lankan boy to do what she did, he would've done the job and would not get caught.

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