He Power of attorney authorized this Wednesday the temporary delivery of the Dutch murderer joran van der sloot to the authorities of the United States, where he is required to answer for crimes of extortion and fraud.
The defendant will leave the Challapalca prison (Tacna), where he is serving a sentence for the femicide of the Peruvian student Stephanie Floresto be extradited and answer for the disappearance of the American Natalee Holloway, which occurred in 2015 on the island of Aruba. The charges against him stem from that case.
“The requesting country must keep the defendant in custody throughout the procedure that is followed in its territory,” reads a statement released by the PJ. The decision, made at the Council of Ministers held in the Government Palace, was previously informed by the Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Daniel Maurate.
“Once the criminal process is concluded”, joran van der sloot He will be returned “immediately” to the authorities of Peru, where his sentence is set until June 20, 2038.
Student Natalee Hollowaya native of Alabama, was 18 years old when she was last seen during her graduation trip to Aruba, a Caribbean island under the sovereignty of the Netherlands where the defendant resided.
Her disappearance, after a night out at a nightclub, sparked years of news coverage, not least because her body was never found and no charges were ever filed against her. Van Der Slot.
Later, a judge declared her dead. Prosecutors allege the Dutchman extorted $25,000 from Holloway’s family in exchange for leading them to her body in early 2010, before fleeing to Peru.
Beth Holloway, mother of the missing woman, said in a statement that her daughter would have turned 36 last Wednesday. “It has been a very long and painful journey, but the persistence of many will be worth it,” she mentioned in the letter released by foxnewsin which he also thanked the administration of Dina Boluarte.
Upon admission of temporary delivery, highest heightdefense of van der slootpointed to Associated Press who will challenge the decision once the Peruvian Government duly notifies. “I am going to oppose, since he has the right to defense,” he said.
The confessed femicide was sentenced to 28 years in prison in 2012 to the detriment of the student Stephany Flores, whom he met in a casino and later took her to his hotel room, where he killed her. Lugo fled Chile, from where he was expelled.
Two years later, he was transferred from the Piedras Gordas prison to that prison for highly dangerous prisoners, located in a remote and isolated region, more than 4,800 meters above sea level, where the temperature can exceed 9 degrees. Celsius during the day to 20 degrees below zero at night.
Before his removal, he married the accountant Leydi Figueroa, who celebrated their union with a party at his home in San Juan de Lurigancho. “I will never leave you, we will be together with our baby forever”the Dutchman told him.
In November 2014, Figueroa gave birth at the National Maternal Perinatal Institute to a little girl who was baptized as dushy, in honor of her Dutch paternal great-grandmother.
