Joran van der Sloot Admits Extortion
Dutchman Joran van der Sloot has reportedly admitted to extortion, a Netherlands paper said on Monday.
Van der Sloot, who is awaiting trial in Lima, Peru for the murder of college student Stephany Flores while attending the Latin American Poker Tour, is said to have admitted to extorting money from the family of Natalee Holloway during an interview with the Telegraph. He is the primary suspect in her 2005 disappearance from Aruba.
Van der Sloot’s attorney in Peru asserted that his client’s words may have been mistranslated: "Maybe there were some mistakes in the translation.”
“I wanted to get back at Natalee's family," van der Sloot is quoted as saying from prison in the Dutch interview. "Her parents have been making my life tough for five years.
"When they offered to pay for the girl's location, I thought: 'Why not?'"
Van der Sloot faces a count of wire fraud and a count of extortion in the United States for allegedly trying to extort more than $250,000 from Holloway's family in return for the location of her body.
Ace King, Gambling911.com
