Joran van der Sloot, prime suspect in Natalee Holloway case, transferred to US custody.

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Joran van der Sloot, prime suspect in Natalee Holloway case, transferred to US custody.
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Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch man suspected in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, has been transferred to U.S. custody to face fraud allegations. He completed less than half of his 28-year prison sentence in Peru for the killing of another woman in 2010 before the transfer. Van der Sloot has been indicted in the Northern District of Alabama on federal allegations of wire fraud and extortion for lying to Holloway's mother and taking $25,000 from her in exchange for information about the location of Natalee's body.

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