IML report did not conclude whether elderly person arrived dead at the bank in Rio de Janeiro

An autopsy report carried out by the Legal Medical Institute (IML) was unable to conclude whether the elderly Paulo Roberto Braga died before or after arriving at the bank, where he was taken in a wheelchair to take out a loan by Érika de Souza Vieira Nunes, 42 years old, relative of the elderly man. The case happened last Tuesday afternoon (16) in Bangu, in the West Zone of Rio.

The expert from the Legal Medical Institute (IML) responsible for the report says that the death could have occurred between 11:30 am and 2:30 pm, but that he does not have reliable elements to say, from a technical and scientific point of view, that the victim died on the way to the agency .

Death, according to the autopsy report, may have been caused by bronchoaspiration of stomach contents and heart failure, compatible with that of a previously ill man.

Experts are still awaiting the results of toxicological tests to determine whether there was any external factor involved in the death. like some drug ingested by Paulo, indicating a homicide.

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The case

The videos went viral on social media and show the woman carrying her supposed uncle in a wheelchair, trying to get him to sign a document to withdraw a loan worth R$17,000.

In the images, it is possible to notice that bank branch employees, suspicious of the man's health, began filming the scene.

In the video, the woman simulates a conversation with her uncle and tries, unsuccessfully, to make her relative hold the pen. “If you don’t sign, there’s no way, I can’t sign for you.”

According to the delegate responsible for the case, Fábio Luiz da Silva Souza, it was found that when he arrived at the bank branch to make the loan, the man had already been dead for some time.