Joran van der Sloot, Natalee Holloway Disappearance Suspect, to face U.S. costs

A person linked to the 2005 disappearance in Aruba of Natalee Holloway, an American teenager, will probably be quickly extradited to the USA from Peru to face extortion and wire fraud costs, the Peruvian authorities mentioned on Wednesday.

Ms. Holloway, then 18, disappeared throughout a visit to the Dutch island together with her Alabama highschool class. She was declared useless in 2012, and the unsolved case has lengthy sparked intense public curiosity, inspiring a number of true-crime books and tv packages in the USA.

The suspect, Joran van der Sloot, is from Aruba and, as one of many final folks to be seen with Ms. Holloway, has been linked to her disappearance for years. He’s in Peru serving a 28-year jail sentence in a separate case: the 2010 homicide of Stephany Flores, a 21-year-old Peruvian scholar.

Additionally in 2010, Mr. van der Sloot was indicted by a federal grand jury in Alabama on costs of making an attempt to extort Ms. Holloway’s mom, Beth Holloway, for $250,000 for details about how her daughter died and the situation of her physique, which has by no means been discovered. He accepted an preliminary fee of $25,000 in an F.B.I. sting operation, and offered what he knew was bogus info, the authorities mentioned then.

The Peruvian Embassy in Washington mentioned in a press release on Wednesday that Mr. Van der Sloot could be quickly handed over to the U.S. for prosecution within the Holloway case.

“We hope that this motion will allow a course of that may assist to carry peace to Mrs. Holloway and to her household, who’re grieving in the identical method that the Flores household in Peru is grieving for the lack of their daughter, Stephany,” Peru’s ambassador to the USA, Gustavo Meza-Cuadra, mentioned within the assertion.

An lawyer for Mr. van der Sloot, Maximo Altez, instructed The Related Press that he would struggle the choice.