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Joran van der Sloot, the premier fishy successful the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, wants to beryllium temporarily transferred to the United States, his lawyer Maximo Altez said Tuesday.
Van der Sloot is acceptable to beryllium extradited from Peru to the United States to look extortion and fraud charges related to an alleged crippled to extort Holloway’s household aft her disappearance, Peruvian officials person said.
Altez said helium received a missive from van der Sloot past week asking the lawyer not to entreaty his transportation to the United States. “I privation to spell to the US,” van der Sloot wrote, Altez told CNN en Español connected Tuesday.
Van der Sloot was progressive successful a combat wrong his situation ward during visiting hours connected Saturday and suffered a chopped to his fingers and immoderate bruising, Altez said. He was placed successful the prison’s aesculapian section, Altez said.
“It wasn’t a nonstop battle against him, it was a combat among immoderate inmates and my lawsuit got progressive erstwhile helium tried to support his friend, who was injured connected the leg. As a effect (Joran) got injured successful his hand,” Altez told CNN en Español.
The lawyer had earlier said his lawsuit had been “severely” beaten, ABC News reported.
Van der Sloot, a Dutch national, was convicted successful 2012 of murdering Stephany Flores, 21, successful his Lima edifice country and sentenced to 28 years successful prison.
“He (van der Sloot) was not beaten. He was not attacked,” a spokesperson for the Peruvian National Penitentiary Institute said successful a connection sent to CNN en Español connected Monday.
The spokesperson did not remark further.
Altez told CNN en Español that van der Sloot sent him different missive the time aft the incidental requesting his transportation to different ward oregon different prison.
Altez can’t pass straight with his lawsuit arsenic determination are nary phones wrong Peru’s Challapalca Prison, truthful they pass by letter, helium said.
An lawyer for the Holloway family, John Kelly, declined to remark erstwhile reached by CNN Tuesday.
Van der Sloot faces extortion and fraud charges successful transportation with an alleged crippled to merchantability mendacious accusation astir the whereabouts of 18-year-old Holloway’s remains successful speech for $250,000. Holloway’s mother, Beth Holloway, wired $15,000 to a slope relationship van der Sloot held successful the Netherlands and done her lawyer gave him different $10,000 successful person, according to a 2010 US national indictment.
Once helium had the archetypal $25,000, van der Sloot said helium would amusement the attorney, Kelly, wherever Natalee Holloway’s remains were hidden, but the accusation turned retired to beryllium false, the indictment states.
The indictment asks for van der Sloot to forfeit $25,100. That magnitude includes $100 Beth Holloway initially transferred to van der Sloot to corroborate his account.
Natalee Holloway was past seen live with van der Sloot and 2 different men 18 years agone leaving a nightclub successful Aruba.
Police successful Aruba arrested and released the 3 men – van der Sloot and brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe – aggregate times successful 2005 and 2007 successful transportation with Holloway’s disappearance. Attorneys for the men maintained the men’s innocence passim the investigation.
In December 2007, the Aruban Public Prosecutor’s Office said nary of the 3 would beryllium charged and dropped the cases against them citing insufficient evidence.
Holloway’s assemblage has not been found. An Alabama justice signed an bid successful 2012 declaring her legally dead. No 1 is presently charged for her death.
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