A person linked to the 2005 disappearance in Aruba of Natalee Holloway, an American teenager, will likely be quickly extradited to the USA from Peru to face prices that he extorted her mom, the Peruvian authorities mentioned on Wednesday.
Ms. Holloway disappeared throughout a visit to the Dutch island together with her Alabama highschool class at age 18. She was declared useless in 2012, and the unsolved case has lengthy generated nice public curiosity in the USA. First there was intense information protection, then true-crime books and feature-length movies.
The suspect, Joran van der Sloot, is a citizen of the Netherlands who grew up in Aruba and has been linked for years to Ms. Holloway’s disappearance. In response to the F.B.I., she was final seen leaving an Aruba nightclub in a automobile with him and two different younger males round 1:30 a.m. on Might 30, 2005.
Mr. van der Sloot is in Peru serving a 28-year jail sentence for homicide in a separate case: the 2010 strangulation loss of life of Stephany Flores, a 21-year-old Peruvian scholar. He was sentenced in 2012, aged 24, after pleading responsible.
Across the time of his 2010 arrest within the Flores case, Mr. van der Sloot was indicted by a federal grand jury in Alabama on prices of attempting 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 cost of $25,000 in an F.B.I. sting operation, and supplied what he knew was bogus data, the authorities mentioned then.
The Peruvian Embassy in Washington mentioned in a press release on Wednesday that Mr. van der Sloot can be quickly handed over to the U.S. for prosecution.
“We hope that this motion will allow a course of that can assist to convey peace to Mrs. Holloway and to her household, who’re grieving in the identical approach 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, informed The Related Press that he would battle the choice.
