Dead man wheeled into bank by niece was likely poisoned
Reports state that the deceased Brazilian guy who his niece wheeled into a bank in an odd scheme to secure her a bank loan was underweight when he passed away and might have been poisoned.
Paulo Roberto Braga, 68, appeared to be malnourished, and the autopsy report that Metrópoles was able to obtain stated that his causes of death were originally classified as broncho-aspiration and heart failure.
According to the report, an emergency care physician who saw him felt that he had been poisoned. As a result, a blood sample from his stomach was sent for toxicological testing on the body.
Braga was determined to have died sometime on Tuesday, April 16, several hours before his niece Erika de Souza Vieira Nunes, 42, wheeled his corpse into a bank and moved his hand to sign for a $3,250 loan.
The elderly man had a history of health issues and was “in need of special care” at the time of his death, Métropoles added.
He had been admitted to an emergency care unit at least once in the last week, where he was diagnosed with pneumonia and tachycardia, the outlet reported. He was also dependent on oxygen and had trouble swallowing.
Her arrest went viral when video emerged of her with his corpse as she pretended he was alive and able to sign approval for her loan.
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,” Nunes could be heard telling the body in the shocking footage.
“Sign so you don’t give me any more headaches, I can’t take it anymore,” she complained.
Bank staffers were put off by the man’s sickly colour and called the police. It was later determined that Braga had actually been dead for several hours.
Troubling footage then emerged that showed Nunes arriving at the bank in a taxi, with the driver even helping her move Braga’s body from the car into the wheelchair.