Woman arrested for wheeling dead uncle into bank to apply for loan

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A woman in Brazil was arrested after attempting to take out a loan in her dead uncle's name at a bank in Rio de Janeiro. The man had likely been dead for at least two hours, and the woman claimed he wanted to sign papers for a $3,250 loan. Bank employees became suspicious and called the police, who confirmed the man was dead. A video circulating on social media shows the woman talking to the reportedly dead man in a wheelchair. The woman is being charged with fraud and abuse of a corpse, and police are still investigating the cause of the man's death.
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