A triple murderer was among the 10 prisoners sent back to the US as part of a deal between the State Department and Venezuela.
Dahud Hanid Ortiz, 55, was sentenced to 30 years in prison in Caracas last year after he killed three people in Madrid in 2016.
He was one of the American citizens flown to Texas on Friday as part of a deal between the White House and the Nicolas Maduro regime in Venezuela.
The Trump administration said the Americans had been political prisoners in the country, with Secretary Marco Rubio saying: ‘Every wrongfully detained American in Venezuela is now free and back in our homeland.’
But the Venezuelan NGO Foro Penal warned that one of them was a murderer, not a dissident, as reported by El Pais.
It is not clear if Ortiz was transferred to a prison after landing in Texas last week.
Daily Mail has reached out to the State Department for comment on this story.
After the prisoner swap, Venezuelan regime leader Diosdado Cabello appeared to troll the US, saying: ‘We handed over some murderers for you.’
Ortiz was born in Venezuela, but became a naturalized US citizen after serving in Iraq.
He was arrested in Caracas in 2018 after he fled Spain following the murders.
Spanish police said Ortiz meant to kill his ex-wife’s new boyfriend, lawyer Víctor Joel Salas, but instead killed the wrong man and two law clerks at a law firm.
Salas told Spanish media he feels betrayed after Ortiz was sent to the US.
‘Both my family and I feel deceived, betrayed, and frustrated,’ he said.
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