A MAN whose dead frame used to be wheeled right into a warehouse by means of his niece in a bid to draw out mortgage could have been poisoned.
Paulo Braga, 68, died on Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro as chilling photos presentations his niece dragging him from the taxi right into a wheelchair.
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An post-mortem has open that Braga used to be malnourished and his demise used to be most likely led to by means of “bronchoaspirartion and heart failure”.
The coroner’s place of business is probing if the person used to be poisoned as they look ahead to the result of an supplementary take a look at.
The file mentioned: “Such data corroborates the necroscopic finding of malnutrition and bronchoaspiration.
“The former center defect discovered additionally contributed to the demise tournament.”
On Tuesday, Braga’s niece, Erika de Souza, was arrested for trying to take out a loan for £2,600 after she was seen wheeling him into the bank.
The CCTV shows Erika, 42, struggling to haul her uncle’s corpse from the passenger seat onto the wheelchair before heading into the building.
At the bank counter, she then pretends to have a conversation with Braga in front of horrified staff as she holds his neck upright.
Braga’s head could be seen swaying back and forth with his eyes closed and his mouth frozen open throughout the eerie ordeal.
Erika asks him to sign off a four-figure loan and at one point even tells him to “forbid giving her a headache”.
But workers at the bank quickly picked up on the sick situation.
One employee said: “I don’t assume that is criminal. He doesn’t glance smartly. He’s very faded.”
Erika snapped back: “He’s like that,” before asking her uncle if he was feeling unwell and wanted to go to the hospital.
When her questions were met with silence, workers at the bank grew suspicious and started filming the incident before calling an ambulance.
Paramedics soon confirmed that Paulo Roberto Braga had passed away before Erika took him into the bank.
She insisted she was unaware Braga was dead when she went to the bank on Tuesday afternoon.
But the medical examination revealed that he passed between 11.30am and 2.30pm that day.
Other footage showed Erika wheeling him around in a chair the day before.
It is not known what his condition was at the time.
Erika told investigators that Braga was discharged from a medical facility on Monday and told her he needed a loan for television and repair costs around the house.
She had picked him up from his home on Tuesday and noticed that he was weak.
A motorcycle taxi driver was called to assist her get Braga out of the house at 12.20pm and told the cops that he was still alive at that time.
“After I entered the home, Paulo used to be mendacity in mattress,” he said.
“I took Paulo by means of the fingers, with Erika’s support, and took him into the auto. I used to be ready to look that he used to be nonetheless respiring and had power in his arms.”
Another driver – who drove the pair to the mall – told police that he spent seven minutes with Braga alone in the car while Erika searched for a wheelchair.
The driver reported that Braga held the door himself when he was being helped out of the car.
The security footage shows Erika pushing her uncle around the mall and parking mall before reaching the bank.
The forensic pathologist couldn’t confirm whether he died on the way to the bank or earlier on.
Police chief Fabio Luiz said: “The investigation is continuing to identify other family members and to find out if he was alive when the loan was arranged and when it dates from.”
Erika has been accused of attempted theft by way of fraud and desecration of a corpse.
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