( Spanish) –– Joran van der Sloot would be handed over to US authorities from Peru on a date that “would not exceed mid-June,” a source with knowledge of the process told .
Van der Sloot, a citizen of the Netherlands, was one of the last people to see American Natalee Holloway alive in Aruba in 2005 before she disappeared. In 2012 he was convicted and found guilty in Peru of the murder of Stephany Flores, a 21-year-old girl, and sentenced to 28 years in prison.
The Peruvian authorities discussed this Friday, among other issues, the date of delivery to the US of Van der Sloot, who is imprisoned in the Challapalca prison, in the south of the country.
In May, the government of Dina Boluarte granted Van der Sloot’s temporary transfer to the United States. The exact date of his delivery will be defined in the next coordination meetings, the same source told .
The figure of deferred or temporary surrender is not an extradition, but it is established in the extradition treaty between Peru and the US, as well as the Peruvian criminal procedure norm. Thus, Van der Sloot will be put on trial in the US and later returned to Peru to finish serving his sentence. Only after that could he return to the requesting country to serve what could become his second sentence.