Van der Sloot on his way back to Peru
Joran van der Sloot, wanted in connection with the murder of a Peruvian woman in a hotel in Lima earlier this week, is on his way back to Peru.
Van der Sloot was picked up by Chilean police on Thursday night, heading for Santiago in a taxi.
According to Radio 1’s correspondent in the region, Van der Sloot is being expelled from Chile as an undesirable foreigner.
Waiting for an international arrest warrant and the ensuing bureaucracy means it could take months before Van der Sloot faces charges, the correspondent said.
Instead he will be escorted to the border by Chilean police and handed over to the Peruvian authorities, the correspondent said.
Mother
Van der Sloot’s mother is ‘shocked’ by the latest developments surrounding her son, the family’s lawyer Bert de Rooij told Radio I news.
Anita van der Sloot spoke to her son by telephone on Thursday evening, the lawyer said, but declined to go into details about the conversation.
He did say that Joran van der Sloot had ‘certainly not’ admitted murdering 21-year-old Stephany Flores.
De Rooj said he was still trying to reach Van der Sloot by email. ‘I am advising him to find a lawyer who knows something about laws affecting foreigners in South American.’
Extortion
Van der Sloot is also facing unrelated charges of extortion and wire fraud in Alabama, US attorney Joyce Vance said Thursday.
The Dutchman is alleged to have tried to extort $250,000 from the mother of Natalee Holloway, the US teenager who disappeared on the holiday island of Aruba five years ago. She was last seen in the company of Van der Sloot, who was 17 at the time.
Van der Sloot allegedly asked for money in return for the location of the remains of Holloway and the circumstances surrounding her death.
He has twice made statements about how Holloway died but her body has never been found.
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