Natalee Holloway murder suspect to be extradited to the US for trial
The main suspect in the 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway will be extradited to the US.
Joran van der Sloot, who is currently in a high-security prison in the Andes, has agreed to be transferred to the US without challenging the Peruvian government’s decision.
The Dutchman is serving a 28-year sentence for the murder of a Peruvian woman.
Peru's government recently announced it will hand him over temporarily to US authorities to face trial for extortion and wire fraud charges.
His lawyer, Máximo Altéz said he does not know the exact date his client will be transferred but said it could be as early as June.
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Dutch national Joran Van der Sloot will be extradited to the US (AFP/Getty Images)Holloway, who lived in suburban Birmingham, Alabama, was 18 when she was last seen during a trip with classmates to the Caribbean island of Aruba.
She vanished after a night with friends at a nightclub, leaving a mystery that sparked years of news coverage and countless true-crime podcasts.
She was last seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot, who was a student at an international school on the island.
Van der Sloot was identified as a suspect and detained weeks later, along with two Surinamese brothers.
Holloway’s body was never found, and no charges were filed in the case. A judge later declared Holloway dead.
The federal charges filed in Alabama against van der Sloot stem from an accusation that he tried to extort the Holloway family in 2010, promising to lead them to her body in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
A grand jury indicted him that year on one count each of wire fraud and extortion.
Also in 2010, van der Sloot was arrested in Peru for the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores, who was killed five years to the day after Holloway’s disappearance.
Peruvian prosecutors accused van der Sloot of killing Flores, a business student from a prominent family, to rob her after learning she had won money at the casino where the two met. He pleaded guilty in 2012.
A 2001 treaty between Peru and the US allows a suspect to be temporarily extradited to face trial in the other country.
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It requires that the prisoner “be returned” after judicial proceedings are concluded “against that person, in accordance with conditions to be determined by” both countries.
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