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The 68-year-old man whose corpse was wheeled into a bank by his niece trying to get a loan was malnourished and may have been poisoned, officials said.
An autopsy, obtained by Brazilian news outlet Metrópoles on Wednesday, showed that Paulo Braga's death was caused by 'bronchoaspiration and heart failure.'
The coroner's office is now awaiting the results of an additional test to determine if the 68-year-old was poisoned.
'Such data corroborates the necroscopic finding of malnutrition and bronchoaspiration,' the report indicated. 'The previous heart disease found also contributed to the death event.'
Rio de Janeiro police arrested Érika de Souza, 42, on Tuesday after she visited the bank with Braga's corpse in an attempt to take out a loan for 17,000 reais ($3,250) and tried to get him to sign for it.
Érika de Souza (pictured) was arrested by authorities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Tuesday after she tried to get her dead uncle, Paulo Braga, to sign a loan document at a bank while he sat on a wheelchair
Footage showed the Érika de Souza instructing her uncle Paulo Braga to hold of his pen encouraged him to sign a piece of paper at the bank branch
A video recorded by the bank staff showed de Souza holding a pen and moving Braga's hand to sign the document moments after his head tilted.
She could be heard in the footage telling Braga, 'Uncle, are you listening? You need to sign.'
De Souza then told the teller, 'He doesn't say anything, that's just how he is,' and turned to her uncle and
