Five jailed for hiding the murder of rapper Cancerbero

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

Cancerbero, who was named the best rapper in Spanish by Rolling Stone magazine, was drugged and stabbed to death by his manager Natalia Amestika.

After this Amestika and her brother threw her body down from the 10th floor window.

The five men sentenced Tuesday were found guilty of helping the siblings at the crime scene, so Cancerbero’s murder appears to be a suicide.

He has been sentenced to 15 to 20 years in prison.

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

The death of Cancerbero, whose real name was Tyrone González, on January 19, 2015, shocked the Venezuelan rap world.

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

But in December 2023, Natalia Amestika has confessed to the stabbing Both Molnar and Cancerbero.

In a video statement released last year by Venezuela’s Attorney General, he described what happened that night.

Natalia Amestika claims she was angry with the rapper when she found out Cancerbero no longer wanted her as his manager.

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

He was accompanied by his friend Carlos Molnar, who was also Natalia América’s long-term boyfriend.

“I happened to make him tea,” he said in the video, adding that he spiked his drink with a powerful tranquilizer.

When his drunken companion, Carlos Molnar, entered the kitchen, he stabbed him in the neck, back and arm.

Cancerbero witnessed Amestica’s attack on her lover, but under the influence of drugs given to him by Amestica, he collapsed on the couch.

After this Amestika stabbed him twice with a knife.

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

His brother arrived with three officers of SEBIN, Venezuela’s intelligence agency, who have now been sentenced.

According to Natalia Amestika, “They arranged the scene in such a way that it looked like a murder-suicide.”

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

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

Her brother Guillermo said that a forensic detective who arrived at the scene was suspicious, commenting that it appeared to be “manipulated”.

According to Guillermo Améstica, the forensic expert demanded a bribe of $10,000 (£7,880) in exchange for helping the siblings cover up the crime and make it appear that Cancerbero had attacked Molnár before jumping out of the window.

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

At the time of his arrest, the Venezuelan Attorney General said that Pratolongo had the keys to Cancerbero’s apartment, from which crucial evidence had disappeared.

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