Dahud Hanid Ortiz, a former American military sentenced in Venezuela For three murders committed in Madrid in 2016, he is free in USA After being part of a exchange of prisoners between the two countries.
The newspaper The Washington Postciting diplomatic sources, said Thursday that Hanid is not in custody of the United States authorities, as underlines information from the agency EFE.
Dahud Hanid Ortiz, for Former Us Marine Convicted of A Triple Homicide in Spain, was Among 10 America Repatriated in Exchange for 250 Venezuelans Held in El Salvador. https://t.co/b995yrupmm
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The former Marine was included in the group of 10 Americans who were imprisoned in Venezuela, and who recently traveled to the northern nation in exchange for the release of 252 migrants held in a maximum security prison in El Salvador since last March.
Three dead, two of them Cuban women
Hanid was convicted in Venezuela a year ago for the murder of three people in Spain. The events occurred on June 22, 2016, when he traveled to Madrid from Germany, where he lived, carried by jealousy, the publication refers.
That day he entered the law firm of Víctor Joel Salas to kill him, believing that he had a relationship with his ex -wife, but the lawyer was not, as stated in the judicial records of the case.
Hanid Ortiz killed the three people he found -two workers of Cuban nationality and an Ecuadorian client -set fire to the premises and fled to Germany. The Cubans responded to the names of Elisa Consuegra and Maritza Osorio, according to The country.
Shortly after he traveled to Venezuela, his country of origin, where he lived with relatives until he was arrested in 2018. After being tried he was sentenced in 2024 to 30 years in prison, the maximum provided for in local legislation.
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For its part, the Spanish newspaper The country indicates that Ortiz served 17 years as Marine, and was awarded by the services provided in Iraq; However, in 2015 he ended up expelled from that body for “fraudulent behavior, false statement and theft.”
“Unjustly arrested”
The Trump administration has not publicly identified those released in the agreement with Venezuela, although it acknowledged that eight of the ten had been classified by the State Department as “unfairly detained.”
Meanwhile, the Spanish Prosecutor’s Office sent to the United States on Thursday a report on the legal status of Hanid, according to legal sources to the Spanish Agency.
From the Spanish Ministry of Justice they recalled that it is a man of dual Venezuelan and American nationality, whose extradition was requested by Spanish justice from Venezuela, but the Supreme Court of that country rejected it. Therefore, his case is “outside the Spanish jurisdiction,” they add.
The families of the three victims of the criminal denounced on Tuesday that, by mistake or for ignorance, a “convicted murderer” will be released.
Diosdado Cabello, head of the Venezuelan Interior Ministry, said in a television program that leads that the United States “defended” and took a “convict murderer” among the ten Americans that the government of his country released last Friday, as part of the renowned exchange.
