he facade of an Itau bank branch in downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The woman entered a branch of an Itaú bank in a Rio de Janeiro suburb on Tuesday.
  • A woman in Brazil was arrested after seemingly trying to secure a bank loan using her dead uncle's signature.
  • The woman appeared to bring her uncle's body to the bank in a wheelchair and tried to use it to sign papers.
  • Bank staff became suspicious when the man was unresponsive and his head kept lolling, local media said.

A woman in Brazil was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of theft by fraud and violating a corpse after she brought her uncle to a bank to sign a loan agreement, local media outlets reported.