Money can make people do unsuspected things, and as an example, a woman left bank employees perplexed after she attended accompanied by her 68-year-old uncle to withdraw a loan on his behalf. There was just one small detail: the woman brought her uncle’s corpse, as he had passed away hours before.
Yes, just as you read. The woman identified as Érika de Souza Vieira Nunes, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, who was responsible for taking care of her uncle named Paulo Roberto Braga, wheeled a dead man who she claimed to be her uncle in to a bank in Bangu to sign off on a $3,400 loan for her.
Bank branch staff began to notice something strange about the man in the wheelchair: he was acting oddly, not reacting to what his niece was saying; she even tried to hold his head and hand, so that supposedly he could sign the document granting her the loan.
🇧🇷 | LO ÚLTIMO: Una mujer llevó un cadáver a una sucursal bancaria en Bangu, en la zona oeste de Río de Janeiro, Brasil, para intentar retirar un préstamo de 17 mil reales.
Érika de Souza Vieira Nunes, responsable de cuidar a su tío Paulo Roberto Braga, de 68 años, llevó al… pic.twitter.com/39fdJHNnQd
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“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,” She says.
Bank Staff Started Recording As They Suspected There Was Something Wrong
A bank worker tried to point out that the man’s color looks off and he appears “not well.”
Suspecting that it was a corpse, bank employees began to record. The woman, acting naturally, insisted that everything was fine and tried to hold onto her uncle, who remained motionless in the wheelchair.
The video clearly shows the man completely unconscious and without color in his skin, while his niece tries to put a pen in his hand to sign the documents that would grant her the bank loan. On several occasions, employees tell her that something is wrong with her uncle, but she, with a somewhat morbid smile, indicates that everything is fine and continues trying to get her uncle to sign.
The employees decided to call the police to inform them of what was happening. When they arrived to check the man, they confirmed the obvious: the man was dead. But not only that, but he had been dead for several hours already! The niece was taken to custody.
How far can ambition go that, without any judgment of value, the niece dared to take her uncle’s corpse to try to obtain money? Now she faces the authorities to whom she will have to explain why she carried out such a terrible action.
This story was written in spanish by Lizbeth Garcia in Cultura Colectiva
