The foremost suspect within the unsolved disappearance of American scholar Natalee Holloway in 2005 has been transferred to a jail close to Peru’s capital forward of his pending extradition to the United States.
Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot is serving a 28-year sentence for the homicide of a 21-year-old Peruvian lady.
Peru’s authorities permitted Van der Sloot’s extradition to the US in May to face trials for alleged extortion and wire fraud fees linked to the Holloway case.
Ms Holloway, who lived in Birmingham, Alabama, was 18 when she went lacking on a visit with classmates to the Caribbean island of Aruba.
She disappeared on an evening out with buddies and was final seen leaving a bar with Van der Sloot, who was a scholar at a global faculty on the island.
Van der Sloot, now 35, was recognized as a suspect and arrested weeks later together with two Surinamese brothers.
Ms Holloway’s physique was by no means discovered and no fees have been filed within the case. A decide later declared Ms Holloway useless.
The fees he faces at trial relate to an accusation he tried to extort the Holloway household in 2010, promising to make them Natalee’s physique in alternate for a whole bunch of hundreds of {dollars}.
A grand jury indicted him that yr on one depend every of wire fraud and extortion, with each fees every punishable by as much as 20 years in jail.
Beth Holloway, mom of Natalee Holloway, speaks throughout the opening of the Natalee Holloway Resource Centre Pic: AP
Máximo Altez, Van der Sloot’s lawyer, mentioned his shopper was being taken from the Challapalca jail in Peru’s southern Andes to the Piedras Gordas jail on the outskirts of Lima.
Peruvian jail authorities mentioned in a press release: “In the coming days, the INPE (National Penitentiary Institute) will hand over the condemned man to Interpol Peru with the goal of handing him over to US authorities from the FBI.”
Mr Altez mentioned Van der Sloot shall be transferred to the US after a medical examination and different administration processes.
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He estimated the extradition might happen on Tuesday however Peruvian authorities didn’t verify this.
Mr Altez additionally indicated his shopper agreed to the extradition as a result of he can be in a extra comfy jail within the US than in Peru.
“He is imprisoned in the worst prison in the world,” Mr Altez mentioned, referring to the maximum-security Challapalca jail.
“Any prison in the United States is a five-star hotel in comparison,” he mentioned.
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