Politics Joran van der Sloot is a Homicide suspect once again

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Joran Andreas Petrus van der Sloot
(born August 6, 1987, in Arnhem, Netherlands) is a Dutch national who lived in Aruba. He is charged in the United States with extortion related to the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway, who disappeared in Aruba on May 30, 2005, and is currently the main suspect in the death of Stephany Flores Ramirez, who died on May 30, 2010, in Lima, Peru, exactly five years after Holloway's disappearance. Van der Sloot was apprehended on June 3, 2010 in Chile.

Natalee Holloway disappearance
Main article: Natalee Holloway

Joran van der Sloot, and brothers 21-year-old Deepak Kalpoe and 18-year-old Satish Kalpoe, were arrested on June 9, 2005, as suspects in the May 30, 2005, disappearance of American Natalee Holloway. The Kalpoes were released from custody on July 14, 2005, but were re-arrested on August 26, 2005, on suspicion of rape and murder while Joran remained in custody. Van der Sloot and the Kalpoes were released on September 3, 2005, due to lack of evidence. Since September 6, 2005, van der Sloot has resided in the Netherlands while attending college. When he was released, he was required to stay within Dutch territory pending the investigation. On September 14, 2005, however, a higher court removed any restriction on him.

On November 21, 2007, van der Sloot was re-arrested in Arnhem, Netherlands, simultaneously with the Kalpoe brothers in Aruba for "suspicion of involvement in voluntary manslaughter and causing serious bodily harm that resulted in the death of Natalee Holloway" because of what the Aruba prosecutor's office also stated is "new incriminating evidence" related to the vanishing of Holloway. Van der Sloot was returned to Aruba November 23 and a court hearing on November 26 ruled to continue his detention for eight days. The Kalpoe brothers were released on December 1. Van der Sloot was ordered released on December 7, and was released without charge the same day.

Dutch television stings
In February 2008, an undercover video made by reporter Peter R. de Vries was aired on a Dutch television show purporting to show van der Sloot smoking marijuana and admitting to being present during Natalee's death. De Vries had befriended van der Sloot who was unaware that he was being taped when he claimed that she had suffered some kind of seizure while having sex on the beach. After failing to revive her, he said that he summoned a friend named Daury who loaded her on a boat and dumped her body into the sea. The prosecutor in Aruba determined the video was admissable, but the evidence was deemed insufficient to warrant re-arrest. Although the taped confession appeared damning, Joran argued that he was lying to impress de Vries, who he believed was a drug dealer.

In November 2008, de Vries aired undercover footage of van der Sloot making preparations for the apparent sex trafficking of Thai women from Bangkok to the Netherlands.

Father's involvement in the case
Paulus van der Sloot, Joran's father who was a lawyer training to be a judge in Aruba, was arrested in June 2005 on suspicion of involvement in the case and was released after three days of questioning. According to Aruba's chief prosecutor, one of the Kalpoe brothers told investigators that Paulus advised that without a body, the police would have no case. On February 11, 2010, Paulus died of a heart attack at the age of 57 while playing tennis.

Extortion charges in the United States
On June 3, 2010, Joran van der Sloot was charged in the U.S. District Court of Northern Alabama with extortion for the amount of $250,000 in exchange for the location of Natalee Holloway's body. According to NBC affiliate WSFA, the criminal complaint filed with the court reveals that an advance amount of $15,000 had been wired from Alabama to the Netherlands on May 10, 2010. According to Greta Van Susteren, Holloway's mother Beth Twitty contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation and that the money was used by van der Sloot to finance his trip to Lima, Peru.

Death of Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramírez
On May 30, 2010, on the fifth anniversary of Holloway's disappearance, Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramírez, 21, was beaten and stabbed to death in the Hotel Tac Sac in the Miraflores District of Lima, Peru. Her body was discovered three days later in a room that had been booked in Joran van der Sloot's name. Van der Sloot had been in Peru since May 14, 2010 to attend a poker tournament. A hotel guest and an employee have come forward to claim they saw van der Sloot and the victim entering his hotel room together and the police have video of the two together the night before at the Atlantic City Casino in Lima.

Flores Ramírez was the daughter of Ricardo Flores, a former president of the Peruvian Automobile Club and winner of the "Caminos del Inca" rally in 1991. He is a well-known prominent businessman who ran for vice president in 2001 and for president five years later on fringe tickets.

Peruvian officials named Joran van der Sloot as the prime suspect in the murder investigation. Interpol issued an international arrest warrant for van der Sloot, believing that he had fled the country to Chile and was traveling to Argentina. Van der Sloot was sighted entering the border town of Arica, Chile and was arrested on June 3, 2010 while traveling in a rented taxi on Highway 68 near the coastal city of Viña del Mar. He remains in the custody of the Chilean Investigation Police in Santiago.
 
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