Murder suspect Joran van der Sloot has been indicted on extortion charges by the grand federal jury in Alabama in connection with the disappearance of Natalee Holloway five years ago.

Van der Sloot is charged with demanding €25,000 from the mother of missing teenager Natalee Holloway in return for information about where the girl’s body is located.
Holloway went missing on holiday on the Caribbean island of Aruba five years ago and was last seen in the company of Van der Sloot. He has twice been arrested in connection with her disappearance.
Van der Sloot is currently in jail in Peru where he faces charges of murdering a local girl at the end of May.