A forensic skilled, three law enforcement officials and a music impresario have been jailed for protecting up the 2015 homicide of Venezuelan rapper Canserbero.
Canserbero, who had been named finest rapper in Spanish by Rolling Stone journal, was drugged and stabbed to dying by his supervisor, Natalia Améstica.
Améstica and her brother then threw his physique from a tenth ground window.
The 5 folks sentenced on Tuesday have been discovered responsible of serving to the siblings stage the crime scene so Canserbero’s homicide appeared a suicide.
They’ve been given jail phrases ranging between 15 and 20 years.
Natalia Améstica and her brother Guillermo have been already sentenced to 25 years in jail again in February for homicide.
The dying on 19 January 2015 of Canserbero, whose actual identify was Tirone González, shocked the Venezuelan rap scene.
It was dominated on the time that the 26-year-old star had killed his good friend Carlos Molnar in a knife combat earlier than leaping from a window.
However in December 2023, Natalia Améstica confessed to stabbing each Molnar and Canserbero.
In a video assertion launched by the Venezuelan lawyer common final yr she recounted what had occurred on the night time.
Natalia Améstica claims that she was offended with the rapper after she had realized that Canserbero now not wished her as his supervisor.
She described how Canserbero got here to her condo within the Venezuelan metropolis of Maracay on 19 January 2015.
He was accompanied by his good friend Carlos Molnar, who was additionally Natalia Améstica’s long-term boyfriend.
“The possibility arose to make them a tea,” she defined within the video, including that she spiked their beverage with a strong tranquiliser.
When her drugged accomplice Carlos Molnar entered the kitchen, she stabbed him within the neck, within the again and within the arm.
Canserbero witnessed Améstica’s assault on her boyfriend however, beneath the affect of the medicine Améstica had slipped him, he collapsed on the couch.
Améstica then proceeded to stab him twice.
“In desperation, I then known as my brother Guillermo to assist me resolve the state of affairs,” she mentioned within the video confession.
Her brother arrived with the three officers from Venezuela’s intelligence company, Sebin, who’ve now been sentenced.
“They completed arranging the scene in a technique to make it appear like a murder-suicide,” in response to Natalia Améstica.
She mentioned that the officers “stabbed Carlos [Molnar] a couple of extra instances, my brother Guillermo stabbed him 4 instances. The remaining, the Sebin officers did”.
“Then we have been instructed throw him out of the window to finish the murder-suicide scene,” she mentioned in her confession.
Her brother Guillermo mentioned {that a} forensic detective who arrived on the scene turned suspicious, remarking that it appeared “manipulated”.
In keeping with Guillermo Améstica, the forensic skilled requested for a bribe of $10,000 (£7,880) in change for serving to the siblings cowl up the crime and to make it appear like Canserbero had attacked Molnar earlier than leaping out of the window.
The fifth man sentenced on Tuesday is Marcos Pratolongo, a music impresario who supplied safety at a few of Canserbero’s live shows.
On the time of his arrest, Venezuela’s lawyer common had mentioned that Pratolongo was in possession of the keys to Canserbero’s condo, from which essential proof had disappeared.
The lawyer common posted on social media on Tuesday that Pratolongo had been discovered responsible of complicity in Canserbero’s homicide however didn’t present additional particulars of his position within the crime.
