5 folks jailed for protecting up rapper’s homicide

A forensic knowledgeable, three law enforcement officials and a music impresario have been jailed for protecting up the 2015 homicide of Venezuelan rapper Canserbero.

Canserbero, named the most effective Spanish-language rapper by Rolling Stone journal, was drugged and stabbed to dying by his supervisor, Natalia Améstica.

Améstica and her brother then threw his physique out of a tenth ground window.

The 5 folks sentenced Tuesday had been discovered responsible of serving to the siblings stage the crime scene in order that Canserbero’s killing seemed to be a suicide.

They had been sentenced to jail phrases starting from 15 to twenty years.

Natalia Améstica and her brother Guillermo had been already sentenced to 25 years in jail in February for homicide.

The dying on January 19, 2015 of Canserbero, whose actual title was Tirone González, shocked the Venezuelan rap scene.

It was dominated on the time that the 26-year-old star killed his pal Carlos Molnar throughout a knife combat earlier than leaping out of a window.

However in December 2023, Natalia Améstica confessed to being stabbed Molnar and Canserbero.

In a video assertion launched final yr by Venezuela’s legal professional normal, she recounted what occurred that evening.

Natalia Améstica claims she was indignant with the rapper after studying Canserbero not wished her as his supervisor.

She described how Canserbero arrived at her house within the Venezuelan metropolis of Maracay on January 19, 2015.

He was accompanied by his pal Carlos Molnar, who was additionally Natalia Améstica’s longtime boyfriend.

“The chance arose to make them some tea,” she mentioned within the video, including that she spiked their drink with a robust tranquilizer.

When her drugged accomplice Carlos Molnar entered the kitchen, she stabbed him within the neck, again and arm.

Canserbero witnessed Améstica’s assault on her boyfriend however, beneath the affect of the medication Améstica had administered to him, he collapsed on the sofa.

Améstica then stabbed 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.

His brother arrived with the three Venezuelan intelligence brokers, Sebin, who’ve now been convicted.

“They completed arranging the scene in order that it regarded like a murder-suicide,” in response to Natalia Améstica.

She mentioned the police “stabbed Carlos [Molnar] just a few extra occasions, my brother Guillermo stabbed him 4 occasions. The remaining was completed by these accountable for Sebin.”

“Then we had been instructed how one can throw him out the window to finish the murder-suicide scene,” she mentioned in her confession.

His brother Guillermo mentioned a forensic detective who arrived on the scene grew to become suspicious, remarking that he appeared “manipulated.”

Based on Guillermo Améstica, the forensic knowledgeable demanded a bribe of $10,000 (£7,880) in trade for serving to the siblings cowl up the crime and making it seem that Canserbero had attacked Molnar earlier than to leap out of the window.

The fifth man sentenced Tuesday is Marcos Pratolongo, a musical impresario who supplied safety for some Canserbero live shows.

On the time of his arrest, Venezuela’s legal professional normal mentioned Pratolongo was in possession of the keys to Canserbero’s house, from which necessary proof had disappeared.

The legal professional normal posted on social media on Tuesday that Pratolongo had been discovered responsible of complicity in Canserbero’s homicide, however didn’t present additional particulars about his position within the crime.