The unusual incident took place at a Rio de Janeiro branch of Itau Bank and video has gone viral on social media.
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The woman can be seen saying, ‘Uncle Paulo, are you listening? You need to sign it. If you don’t sign it, there’s no way. I can’t sign it for you.’
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‘Sign it, you don’t give me any more headaches, have to go to the registry office. I can’t take it anymore,” the woman continues.
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However, the old man remains unresponsive. The woman takes hold of his head and tries to fit a pen between his fingers.
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‘I don’t think he’s okay,’ one employee says. ‘There’s no color in his face.’ The woman dismisses their concerns, ‘He’s like that. He doesn’t say anything.’
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The suspicious bank officials then called an ambulance. When the paramedics arrived, they said he had been dead for several hours
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Police booked the woman for attempted theft by fraud and defiling a corpse