Global Courant 2023-05-20 07:01:17
EXCLUSIVE: An Interpol official says Joran van der Sloot will be extradited from Peru by FBI agents in the first week of June.
Van der Sloot is the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway during a senior trip at Mountain Brook High School, Alabama, Aruba. He is charged with racketeering and wire fraud after allegedly attempting to sell information about the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway’s body to Beth Holloway.
According to federal prosecutors, Van der Sloot requested a total of $250,000 – $25,000 upfront for the information, with the rest of the money to be paid out when Natalee Holloway’s remains were positively identified in Aruba, where she went missing.
Prosecutors also allege that Van der Sloot lied to Beth Holloway’s attorney, John Q. Kelly, about the whereabouts of her daughter’s remains, leading him to an area where Natalee Holloway’s body was ultimately not found.
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File photo dated 6 January 2012 of the Dutchman Joran Van der Sloot during his preliminary hearing in the Lurigancho prison in Lima. Peru’s Supreme Court has approved the extradition of Joran van der Sloot to the US on charges of extorting money from the family of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, but it will not take place until he serves his 28-year sentence for the murder of De 21-year-old Stephany Flores. (Ernesto Benavides/AFP/GettyImages)
In an interview with Fox News Digital after meeting with the FBI and other Peruvian agencies, Colonel Carlos López Aeda, the Interpol chief in Lima, Peru, said Van der Sloot will be made available to US authorities for extradition on May 29 . .
“From May 29, he will be available for US authorities to transfer to the United States,” López Aeda said. “They have indicated that an FBI plane with FBI agents will arrive in the first week of June to extradite him from a Peruvian air base.”
Joran van der Sloot is the prime suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in 2005. He is serving a prison sentence in Peru for the 2010 murder of a 21-year-old woman named Stephany Flores. (Getty Images, AP)
The Interpol official said the extradition should take place no later than June 8 or 9.
He also said that Van der Sloot will be transferred to a maximum security prison in Lima by May 25. Van der Sloot is currently being held in Challapalca Prison, nearly a day’s drive from Lima.
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Natalee Holloway was last seen alive in Aruba on a high school field trip in Mountain Brook. (Federal Office of Investigation)
Before being extradited, van der Sloot will undergo several medical tests, López Aeda said.
“We will carry out the medical procedures to certify Joran’s good health, the COVID tests that even the personnel who will transfer him will have to do, those of us who will join the security convoy and guarantee that all his rights will be respected so that everything is done in the fastest and most efficient way, unless the defense appeals, which we highly doubt,” said López Aeda.
“That’s all for now, we’re done, we’ve done all the coordination in detail, now that ‘the ball is in the United States’ side, let them come and extradite it,'” he added.
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Beth Holloway, mother of Natalee Holloway, speaks at the opening of the Natalee Holloway Resource Center (NHRC) at the National Museum of Crime & Punishment in Washington, June 8, 2010. Natalee, 18, of Mountain Brook, Alabama, disappeared while carrying a high school graduation trip to Dutch Aruba, an island in the Caribbean in 2005. She never showed up for a flight home and her disappearance made international headlines. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Van der Sloot faces a prison sentence in Peru for the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores in 2010. His original sentence was 28 years, but was given more time due to a drug smuggling scandal in prison.
Natalee Holloway’s body was never found. In January 2012, Van der Sloot pleaded guilty to Flores’ murder, and Natalee Holloway was declared legally dead that month.
 
Natalee Holloway’s mother, Beth, said in an earlier statement shared with Fox News Digital that the extradition gives a chance to finally serve justice.
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A general view of the Holiday Inn resort in Noord, Aruba, Friday, May 12, 2023. The Holiday Inn resort is where Natalee Holloway stayed in 2005 before she disappeared. (Mega for Fox News Digital)
“I was blessed to have had Natalee in my life for 18 years, and as of this month I have been exactly 18 years without her. She would be 36 years old now,” Beth Holloway said. “It has been a very long and painful journey, but the persistence of many will pay off. Together we will finally get justice for Natalee.”
Fox News’ Michael Ruiz and Haley Chi-Sing contributed to this report.
Adam Sabes is a writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to Adam.Sabes@fox.com and on Twitter @asabes10.
