Five people were sentenced for covering up the murder of the rapper

A forensics expert, three police officers and a music impresario have been jailed for covering up the 2015 murder of Venezuelan rapper Cancerbero.

Cancerbero, who was voted the best Spanish-language rapper by Rolling Stone magazine, was drugged and beaten to death by his manager Natalya Amestika.

Amestika and her brother then threw his body out of a 10th floor window.

Five people convicted on Tuesday were found guilty of helping the siblings at the crime scene, making Canserber’s slaying look like a suicide.

They received from 15 to 20 years of imprisonment.

Natalia Amestyka and her brother Guillermo were already sentenced to 25 years in prison back in February for murder.

The death on January 19, 2015 of Cancerbero, whose real name was Tirana Gonzalez, shocked the Venezuelan rap scene.

At the time, it was accepted that the 26-year-old star killed his friend Carlos Molnar in a knife fight before jumping from the window.

But in December 2023. Natalya Amestyka confessed to the stabbing both Molnar and Cancerbero.

In a video statement released by Venezuela’s attorney general last year, she recounted what happened that night.

Natalya Amestika claims that she became angry with the rapper after she found out that Canzerbera no longer wanted her as a manager.

She told how Cancerbero came to her apartment in the Venezuelan city of Maracay on January 19, 2015.

He was accompanied by his friend Carlos Molnar, who was also Natalia Amestika’s longtime boyfriend.

“There was a chance to make them tea,” she explained in the video, adding that she spiked their drink with a powerful tranquilizer.

When her drug partner Carlos Molnar entered the kitchen, she stabbed him in the neck, back and arm.

Cancerbero witnessed Amestica’s attack on her boyfriend, but he collapsed on the sofa under the influence of drugs Amestica slipped him.

Améstica then stabbed him twice.

“In desperation, I called Guillermo’s brother to help me resolve the situation,” she said in a video confession.

Her brother arrived with three now-sentenced officers of Venezuela’s Sebin intelligence agency.

“They finished decorating the scene in such a way that it looked like a murder-suicide,” Natalya Ametyka said.

She said the officers “stabbed Carlos (Molnar) a few more times, my brother Guillermo stabbed him four times. Sebin officials did the rest.”

“We were then told how to throw him out the window to complete the murder-suicide scene,” she said in her confession.

Her brother Guillermo said a forensics detective who arrived at the scene became suspicious, noting that it looked “manipulated.”

According to Guillermo Amestico, the forensic expert asked for a $10,000 (£7,880) bribe in exchange for helping the siblings cover up the crime and make it look like Cancerbero attacked Molnar before jumping out the window.

The fifth person sentenced on Tuesday is Marcos Pratalongo, a music impresario who provided security at some of Canserbero’s concerts.

At the time of the arrest, Venezuela’s attorney general said that Pratalongo had the keys to Cancerbero’s apartment, from which important evidence had disappeared.

The attorney general posted on social media on Tuesday that Pratalongo had been found guilty of complicity in Cancerbero’s murder, but did not provide further details about his role in the crime.