Viral video shows fugitive Venezuelan drug lord Reinaldo Fuentes Campos, aka “El Taliban”, being thrown off a raft into the Caribbean Sea and left to drown on July 17

Fuentes, 68, was executed because he tossed cartel’s 450lb cocaine shipment into the sea and concocted a tale of coast guard interception

He later retrieved the shipment, repackaged and sold it, but was then ratted out and ended up beings tossed alive from a raft into the Caribbean sea with an anchor tied to his waist

Fuentes from Venezuelan had been living in the Dominican Republic under an assumed name since the $10M cocaine heist 

He was kidnapped after being lured to a cartel meeting on July 17, and dumped to die the same day in apparent retribution for the theft

No arrests have been made – the executioners hid their faces and the location of the meeting has not been ascertained

Newly emerging footage shows Venezuelan drug trafficker Reinaldo Fuentes Campos, aka “El Taliban” lying flat inside a raft moments before he was tossed in the Caribbean Sea near Martinique in July

This is the moment a fugitive Venezuelan drug trafficker, Reinaldo Fuentes Campos, aka “El Taliban” is dumped alive in the ocean with his hands zip-tied and an anchor around his waist in revenge for stealing 450 pounds of cocaine – and cash – from a cartel.
Reinaldo Fuentes, 68, is seen bound and gagged with blood stains on the back of his head before his killers struggle to heave him – and the anchor – over the side of a boat into the Caribbean Sea near Martinique on July 17.

Footage shows Reinaldo Fuentes thrown off a raft into the Caribbean Sea. The video was recorded in July

The footage, shared to social media, shows Fuentes staring at the person recording the video. He is then dumped overboard and left to drown.
None of his kidnappers are identified but one is heard in the background of the video saying ‘make sure none of our faces can be seen’ and another later said ‘he has no way to save himself’.
In an elaborate – and poorly thought out – ruse, Fuentes, a middleman for the Venezuelan Clan del Cartel, earlier had dumped a shipment of narcotics worth $10 million at sea and fabricated a fake coast guard pursuit to explain not bringing the drugs back to his bosses and kept the cash.

The footage, shared to social media, shows Fuentes staring at the person recording the video, before he is then dumped overboard and left to drown

Fuentes is lifted from the raft moments before he was tossed in to the Caribbean Sea after being accused of stealing $10 million worth of cocaine from the Venezuelan Clan del Cartel

He then went back out on the water to collect the cocaine, repackaged it and took it to another Caribbean island.
The scheme however, went awry when his henchmen snitched. He was invited to a cartel meeting on July 17 , instead ended up in a vast watery grave the same day.
Veteran journalist Rafael Tolentino revealed Monday on ‘Esto No Es Radio,’ a daily morning show in the Dominican Republic, that Fuentes a native of Sucre, Venezuela, obtained a fake national identification document that allowed him to live under the assumed name Miguel Fulcar in the Dominican Republic, making it possible for him to go undetected by authorities.
The drug trafficker was reportedly dating a prominent lawyer, caring for her daughter, in the Dominican city of Bonao. He had three children from a prior relationship back in Venezuela. 

Reinaldo Fuentes accepted money for 200 kilos of cocaine and then stole the drugs in an elaborate plot. But, his fellow drug traffickers ratted him out and he paid with his life in a vast watery grave

Fuentes allegedly controlled drug dealing in the Bonao neighborhood of Buenos Aires, where he picked up the ‘Taliban’ nickname due to illicit dealings with Middle Eastern drug traffickers.
Two members of his organization were previously killed in a shootout with the police in Buenos Aires.
The investigation led law enforcement to a home in Bonao where a cache of weapons, allegedly belonging to Fuentes, was recovered.
He last entry into the Dominican Republic on was on country July 14 and was there for couple of days before departing for the meeting where he met his death.
Fuentes was executed by his associates reportedly, because he had been involved with the diversion of a multi-million-dollar cocaine shipment destined for Tortola, the largest of the British Virgin Islands.

Fuentes was living in Venezuela, but got fake identification that let him live in the Dominican Republic under the assumed name of Miguel Fulcar, after the alleged theft

Fuentes is seen lying on the floor of the raftt, his hands bound and an anchor tied to his body, as recorded by his executioners

He was kidnapped on July 17 and the same day was taken out to the Caribbean sea and thrown overboard with his hands tied and an anchor tied to his waist. Footage shows two men struggle to lift Fuentes off the raft because of the weight of the anchor wrapped around his body

The men subsequently dump Fuentes headfirst into the sea, bound and weighed down to prevent him from saving himself. ‘He still doesn’t have a way to free himself,’ one of the men in the background could be heard saying before the video comes to an end

Fuentes left his Dominican home and was lured to a cartel meeting at an unknown location on July 17. That is when he was kidnapped and dumped at sea later in the day. 
In the video, a gang member ensured that the executioners’ faces were not shown on film. 
Two men then struggled to lift Fuentes off the raft because he had an anchor wrapped around his body to prevent him from saving himself. They subsequently dump him headfirst into the sea.
The video ends with a distant image of Fuentes floating in the water with no effort to save him. 
It’s unclear if authorities have made any arrests in the case although the Dominican Republic military said that the incident did not take place in its waters.

The video ends with a distant image of Fuentes floating in the water. His executioners made no effort to save him. No arrests have been made as the men ensured their faces could not be seen and the exact location of the meeting has not been ascertained

It’s also unknown how long Fuentes has been linked to Mexico’s Clan del Cartel, aka Gulf Cartel, based in of the northeastern state of Tamaulipas and considered the oldest active criminal organization in Mexico, which at some point controlled the drug trafficking business after forming an alliance with the once-powerful Colombian Cali Cartel to set up drug trafficking routes to the United States.