Venezuelan narcorate ‘Taliban’ is dumped alive in the Caribbean Sea after cocaine is removed
- Reinaldo Fuentes was thrown from a raft into the Caribbean Sea
- Fuentes was a Venezuelan drug trafficker accused of stealing millions of dollars worth of cocaine
- He was kidnapped and dumped on July 17 to die the next day in apparent retaliation for the theft
Shocking video shows the moment a tied Venezuelan drug lord known as ‘Taliban’ was dumped alive in the Caribbean Sea and drowned in retaliation for a cocaine theft.
Footage of the incident surfaced on social media last week, showing Reinaldo Fuentes lying in a boat with bloodstains on the back of his head.
The boat drifted in the Caribbean Sea off Martinique on July 18 because Fuentes had both hands bound with a zip and an anchor tied to his body.
Fuentes looked at the camera before others on the boat lifted him up and hung his body over the side. They dumped him headfirst into the ocean.
The final moments of the video showed Fuentes floating to the bottom of the sea, an apparent execution for allegedly stealing cocaine worth millions of dollars.
Reinaldo Fuentes, a Venezuelan drug trafficker, lies flat in a raft just before being thrown into the Caribbean Sea off Martinique in July
Fuentes is lifted off the raft just before being thrown into the Caribbean Sea after being accused of stealing cocaine worth millions of dollars
Fuentes was kidnapped and killed by fellow drug traffickers over the alleged theft.
Sources told veteran journalist Rafael Tolentino Tolentino that Fuentes was killed because he had been involved in stealing a multimillion-dollar cocaine shipment destined for Tortola, the largest of the British Virgin Islands.
Fuentes accepted the money for 200 kilograms of cocaine in Tortola and then returned to the sea to return the drugs. However, he dumped the kilos of cocaine during a fake chase concocted in conjunction with the island’s Coast Guard.
He then returned, retrieved the cocaine from the water and repackaged it with different tags on each bundle, instead of the tags used by the Cartel del Golfo, and took the drugs to another island in the Caribbean.
However, the other traffickers with Fuentes betrayed him to the gang, leading to his death.
Fuentes accepted money for 200 kilograms of cocaine and then stole the drugs in an elaborate plot. But his fellow drug traffickers betrayed him
Fuentes lived in Venezuela but was given a fake ID that allowed him to live in the Dominican Republic after the alleged theft
He was kidnapped on July 17 and taken to the Caribbean Sea the next day
Tolentino revealed Monday on “Esto No Es Radio,” a daily morning show in the Dominican Republic, that following the theft, Fuented was given fake IDs posing as Miguel Fulcar and living in the Caribbean country.
The fake ID made it difficult for authorities to find him.
Funtes also reportedly had a relationship with a prominent lawyer in the city of Bonao.
Sources told Tolentino that Fuentes entered the country on July 14 and stayed there for two days before leaving.
They said he was a middleman for drug shipments between the Dominican Republic and neighboring countries in the Caribbean for the Cartel del Golfo, a criminal organization based in Venezuela.
As he left, gang members invited Fuentes to a cartel meeting at an unknown location on July 17. There he was kidnapped and dumped into the sea the next day.
In the video, a gang member made sure that the faces of the executioners could not be seen on film.
Two men then struggled to lift Puentes off the raft, as he had an anchor wrapped around his body to prevent him from saving himself. They then dump him headfirst into the sea.
“He still has no way of freeing himself,” one of the men can be heard saying in the background before the video ends.