The government of Peru has issued an executive order allowing the temporary extradition to the United States of the prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American Natalee Holloway in the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba.
of American student Natalee Holloway on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba.
Holloway’s body was never found, and no charges were filed against Van der Sloot in the case. A judge later declared Holloway dead. Van der Sloot is serving 28 years in prison in Peru for being convicted of murdering 21-year-old Peruvian student Stephany Flores after meeting her in a Lima casino in 2010.
"At a time when there is increasingly greater cross-border transit of people, our institutions are keeping up to ensure that criminals are brought to justice," Edgar Alfredo Rebaza, director of Peru’s Office of International Judicial Cooperation and Extraditions of the National Prosecutor’s Office, said in a statement. "We will continue to collaborate on legal issues with allies such as the United States, and many others with which we have extradition treaties.
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