The former manager of Venezuelan rapper Canserbero has revealed in a video confession that she murdered the hip-hop star.
The 2015 death of Canserbero, named the best rapper in Spanish by Rolling Stone magazine, was initially ruled a suicide.
Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab yesterday released video statements recorded on December 19 by ex-manager Natalia Améstica and her brother Guillermo, in which they recalled the events of the night of the rapper's death.
Améstica said she drugged the musician and stabbed him. With the help of her brother, she then threw the body out of a tenth-floor window, she said in a video statement from Venezuela's attorney general: BBC News reports.
Améstica claims she became angry during the musician's Chile tour when his friend and producer, Carlos Molnar, informed her that she would not receive a share of the profits from the tour, which she said she had organized, as reports the publication.
Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab yesterday released video statements recorded on December 19 by ex-manager Natalia Améstica (photo) and her brother Guillermo
Canserbero's friends and family continued to express doubts about the official version of events and the case was reopened in November after pressure from them.
She was also told she would not be able to get a refund for the plane tickets she purchased.
Améstica and Carlos Molnar, 35, were a couple and were reportedly in a romantic relationship for more than a decade.
She also says that she found out during the tour that the rapper no longer wanted her as a manager.
“This hurt me a lot and caused me a lot of internal pain,” she said, according to BBC News.
Canserbero's friends and family continued to express doubts about the official version of events and the case was reopened in November after pressure from them.
Améstica recounted how Canserbero and Molnar visited her apartment in the city of Maracay, Venezuela, on the night of January 19, 2015, the publication reported.
“The children had left to stay with their grandmother and an opportunity arose to make tea for them,” she said, according to the report.
Améstica said she added a powerful sedative to the drink.
When her drugged boyfriend Molnar entered the kitchen, where she was preparing a meal, she stabbed him in the neck, arm and back, according to the report.
'Tyrone saw me and was very worried, but he was also sleepy. I explained that it was a fit of rage, that I had not been able to control myself,” she told BBC News.
'He (Canserbero) collapsed asleep on the sofa and I stabbed him twice in the side. In desperation, I called my brother Guillermo to help me resolve the situation.'
Améstica says her brother showed up with three agents from Sebin, the Venezuelan intelligence service.
“They set up the scene to look like a murder-suicide, which means they stabbed Carlos a few more times, my brother Guillermo stabbed him four times. The rest was done by Sebin officials,” she said, according to the report.
The ex-manager describes how her brother punched Tyrone in the face to make it look like he was involved in a fight.
“We were then told how to throw him out the window to complete the murder-suicide scene,” she said, according to the report.
Guillermo backed up her account of that evening's events in a video statement also released by the attorney general's office.
The attorney general's office issued arrest warrants for several police officers who were at the scene, accusing them of taking money from the siblings to cover up the crime.
Arrest warrants were also issued for a forensic pathologist and two prosecutors' investigators involved in the investigation.
“Canserbero can rest in peace,” said Saab, who compared the crime to the murder of American rapper Tupac Shakur in the United States in 1996 at the age of 25.