Joran van der Sloot Indicted by US Government

Joran van der Sloot on Wednesday was indicted by US grand jury on charges of wire fraud and extortion.

He is accused of trying to sell information for $250,000 with regard to the location of Natalee Holloway's remains.

Van der Sloot was the prime suspect in Holloway's 2005 disappearance from the island nation of Aruba.

He has since been charged in Lima, Peru for the murder of a female college student, Stephany Flores, and remains in a prison there. 

Van der Sloot had been in Lima to attend the Latin American Poker Tour.

It is alleged that van der Sloot exploited "Beth Holloway's fear that she would never find her daughter's body or know what happened to her unless she paid him $250,000," according to the Alabama U.S. Attorney's office.

Some of that money was believed to have been used to pay his way through South America following the LAPT.

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Ace King, Gambling911.com