Joran van der Sloot to be Extradited to US: Served Time for Killing Girl He Met at Casino
An Aruba man who was the primary suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway is set to be extradited back to the United States.
Joran van der Sloot is not serving time in the Holloway case though. He is in prison for 28 years after being convicted in the 2010 murder of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman he met at a casino. van der Sloot was attending a poker tournament in Lima at the time. The murder took place almost exactly five years after Holloway was first reported missing.
And he is likely to serve even more time in the United States once he completes his sentence for the murder of Stephany Flores.
The Peruvian government has agreed to temporarily hand over the Dutch citizen to American authorities "for his prosecution in the United States for the alleged commission of the crimes of extortion and fraud, to the grievance of Elizabeth Ann Holloway," Peru Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Daniel Maurate Romero, said in a statement.
Gambling911.com covered the Flores murder case extensively back in 2010 with van der Sloot's ties to the poker world coming to light.
Was Van der Sloot AANOTILTKK on Poker Sites?
Almost immediately after van der Sloot was charged in the murder of Flores while attending the PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT), the poker community asked if he went by "AANOTILTKK", noting that player, perhaps van der Sloot, had won enough money playing online poker to sustain a pretty nice lifestyle.
In 2019, AANOTILTKK won over $13,000 at the Party Poker $ 300K Guaranteed.
But according to professional poker player databases maintained at Poker Pages (www.pokerpages.com) and Hendon Mob (www.hendonmob.com), van der Sloot, 22 at the time he was charged, had NEVER finished in the money in any significant offline poker tourney.
The Miami Herald reported van der Sloot participated in a major poker tournament in China in 2009. It was not believed he had registered to play in the Latin American Poker Tour at the time he met Ms. Flores.
- Nagesh Rath, Gambling911.com
