RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil: Brazilian police have arrested a girl who tried to take out a financial institution mortgage for a man she was pushing in a wheelchair who turned out to be lifeless.
Workers at a Rio de Janeiro financial institution referred to as emergency providers on Tuesday (Apr 16) after changing into suspicious when Erika Vieira Nunes wheeled the 68-year-old man into the financial institution and requested a mortgage in his title.
Footage of the incident exhibits her holding a pen and shifting his hand ahead to no response. At one level within the video, the person’s head falls again when she stops holding it up.
“Uncle, are you listening? You might want to signal,” Nunes says within the safety video, suggesting she signal for him.
“He would not say something, that is simply how he’s,” she continues, including: “When you’re not okay, I will take you to the hospital.”
When emergency employees arrived, they decided the person was lifeless, police mentioned in a press release. His corpse was then taken to a morgue.
Brazilian media reviews mentioned that Nunes claimed to be the person’s niece and sought to take out a mortgage of 17,000 reais (about US$3,250) in his title.
Police for the precinct of Bangu, on Rio’s west aspect, arrested her for tried theft by fraud and defiling a cadaver, they mentioned.
“She tried to make it seem like he was signing the papers,” native investigation chief Fabio Luiz instructed information website G1.
“However he was already lifeless when he entered the financial institution.”
Nunes’ lawyer argued that the man died on the financial institution however a police forensic evaluation decided he had died earlier whereas mendacity down.
