Venezuela-US prisoner swap: Freed was serving a 30-year sentence for American triple murder; We know about punishment

HeyOne of the ten Americans released from Venezuela last week was a guilty killer, who was serving a 30-year sentence, Spanish and Venezuela officials confirmed. Dahud Hanid Ortiz was jailed in Venezuela for the 2016 murder of three people inside Madrid’s law office. According to the Spanish internal minister, 54 -year -old Ortiz entered the firm in search of a specific lawyer who led the office.However, there was no officer at that time. Ortiz then stabbed two women staff members and a customer. Although he was arrested in Venezuela two years later, the Ortis was never extradited in Spain. He was sentenced in Venezuela on 9 January 2024. According to Venezuela’s Justice Minister Diosdado Cabello, despite being informed about the sentence of Ortise, the American officials proceeded with joining the swap. An American official, familiar with the case, confirmed that Washington knew about the past of Orties, but still opted to secure his release. The prisoner exchange freed 10 Americans in exchange for more than 200 Venezuela migrants, which were deported from the US and transferred to a high security prison in Al Salvador. Eight Americans were officially classified as “wrongly detained” by Washington. ABC News reported that Ortis was not classified into the category. Officials said the primary objective of American citizens had to get out of Venezuela’s notorious rigid gel system, even though it meant that a person was once convicted of triple murder.