LIMA, Peru (AP) - The chief suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway is being transferred to a prison near Peru's capital ahead of his pending extradition to the United States to face charges linked to her vanishing, officials said Saturday.The government of Peru, where Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot was serving a 28-year sentence for the murder of a Peruvian woman, authorized his extradition to the U.S.
in May.Máximo Altez, van der Sloot’s lawyer, said is client was being taken by land from the Challapalca prison in Peru's southern Andes to the Piedras Gordas prison on the outskirts of Lima."In the coming days, the INPE (National Penitentiary Institute) will hand over the condemned man to Interpol Peru with the goal of handing him over to U.S.
authorities from the FBI," said a statement from the INPE released Saturday.Dutch national Joran van der Sloot is pictured during a hearing at the Lurigancho prison in Lima on January 11, 2011. (Photo: Ernesto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images) Altez said that once the bureaucratic procedures are completed and van der Sloot is given a medical exam, his client will be transferred to the U.S.