A Brazilian woman has been arrested after she wheeled a corpse into a bank, presumably hoping it would help her secure a loan.
Érika de Souza Vieira Nunes was captured on video by bank employees wheeling the body of Paulo Roberta Braga into a Rio De Janeiro bank branch in a wheelchair.
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“I have never come across a story like this in 22 years [as an officer],” added Souza.
Nunes’ lawyer says that Braga was alive when he entered the bank.
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“The facts did not occur as has been narrated. Paulo was alive when he arrived at the bank,” Ana Carla de Souza Correa told reporters.
“All of this will be cleared up. We believe in Érika’s innocence.”
However, police forensic analysis determined he had died earlier, while lying down.
The Weekend at Bernie’s-style deception is reminiscent of a similar attempted scam back in 2022, when an Irish man propped up a corpse and carried him inside a post office in an effort to claim the dead man’s pension money.
Declan Haughney told the Irish Times that the deceased man was his uncle, but claimed he didn’t know the man was dead and thought that, perhaps, he’d died on the walk to the post office.