Venezuelan rapper Canserbero, considered the best Spanish rapper by Rolling Stone magazine, did not commit suicide in 2015 but was murdered, the prosecutor's office announced Tuesday after the trial resumed.
Attorney General Tarek William Saab presented to the press videos with the confessions of the “two assassins” of Tyrone Gonzalez, known as Canserbero, and explained in detail the circumstances of the musician's death at the age of 26.
The public prosecutor's office resumed the investigation in November. The exhumation of the singer's body and a new autopsy revealed that Canserbero did not throw himself from the 10th floor of a building in Maracay (north central) shortly after stabbing his friend Carlos Molnar during a fight.
In one of the videos published by Mr. Saab, Natalia Amestica, Carlos Molnar's wife, describes how she drugged them both and then stabbed them multiple times.
She then called her brother Guillermo to “help” her cover up the double murder. The two staged a fight between Canserbero and his friend, beat his corpse, and then threw Canserbero's body into the void.
According to the prosecutor, the sister and brother paid bribes to the police officers who arrived on the scene to support the suicide theory.
“Everything was done in cold blood and with premeditation,” he said.
According to him, the new investigations made it possible to establish that the motive was a dispute over a large sum of money following a tour through Argentina and Chile financed by Amestica.
According to the public prosecutor's office, six people are in custody and several are on the run.
In particular, the public prosecutor issued arrest warrants for six of the seven police officers who first arrived at the scene. The seventh police officer involved died in 2018.
“They received $10,000, changed the location – the crime scene” and acted “to promote the suicide theory,” Mr. Saab said.
The public prosecutor's office also ordered the arrest of a forensic pathologist and two prosecutors who were involved in the initial investigation.
A trial will take place, but Mr. Saab did not give a date.
“Canserbero can rest in peace,” he concluded, drawing a comparison with the 1996 murder of American rapper Tupac Shakur in the United States.
“What a difference from the debt that the American justice system owes to an artist, a musical genius like Tupac Shakur (…) Here the Venezuelan justice system has solved the problem, it has brought to justice all the actors of this case,” he said.
In November, the suspect in the hip-hop legend's murder pleaded not guilty in the US after being charged in September. The trial is scheduled to take place in 2024.