Joran van der Sloot would leave prison in Peru this Friday for the United States

(CNN) — Joran van der Sloot, a citizen of the Netherlands imprisoned in a maximum security prison in southern Peru, would be transferred this Friday to Lima, where he will be made available to the United States authorities, who requested his surrender on charges of fraud and extortion, a source close to the process told CNN.

Van der Sloot was one of the last people to see American Natalee Holloway alive in Aruba in 2005 before she disappeared. He is now serving a 28-year prison sentence for the death of Stephany Flores, a 21-year-old girl, whom he confessed to murdering in 2010.

This Friday is a temporary delivery, established in the extradition treaty between Peru and the North American country, which will allow Van der Sloot to be tried in the United States on charges of fraud and extortion to the detriment of Elizabeth Halloway, Natalee’s mother .

Van der Sloot’s lawyer said he received a letter from his client asking him not to appeal his transfer. “I want to go to the United States,” Van Der Sloot wrote, Altez told CNN on Tuesday.

On May 19, CNN reported that Van der Sloot would be handed over on a date “not to exceed mid-June,” a source with knowledge of the process told CNN at the time.

Van der Sloot will be put on trial in the US and later returned to Peru to finish serving his sentence there. Only after that could he return to the requesting country to serve what could become his second sentence if he were found guilty.