Joran van der Sloot, is being extradited to the U.S.

According to officials in Peru, Joran van der Sloot, one of the last persons to see American adolescent Natalee Holloway (18 at the time of her disappearance) alive in Aruba in 2005, will be extradited to the United States.

Peru "decided to agree to van der Sloot's request for temporary surrender... for his prosecution in the United States for the alleged commission of extortion and fraud crimes." Holloway's mother, Justice and Human Rights Minister Daniel Maurate Romero stated in a statement on Wednesday.

Van der Sloot, a Dutch national, was sentenced to 28 years in prison in 2012 for the murder of Stephany Flores, 21, in his Lima hotel room. Van der Sloot met Flores at Atlantic City Casino in Lima.

Officials said he was indicted in the United States on federal charges of extortion and wire fraud in connection with a plot to sell information about the whereabouts of Holloway's remains for $250,000. The extortion took place in 2010 about 5 years after Natalee’s disappearance.

According to the accusation, the missing 18-year-old's mother, Beth Holloway, transferred $15,000 to a bank account van der Sloot maintained in the Netherlands and handed him another $10,000 in person through an attorney. After receiving the initial $25,000, van der Sloot allegedly showed the attorney, John Kelly, where Natalee Holloway's remains were allegedly hidden, but the information turned out to be false, according to the indictment.

The indictment demands for van der Sloot to forfeit $25,100, including $100 Beth Holloway first transferred to van der Sloot in order to validate his account.

Holloway was last spotted leaving an Aruba nightclub with van der Sloot and two other men in the early hours of May 30, 2005. Nobody was ever prosecuted in her disappearance, and her corpse was never found. Holloway was declared legally dead by an Alabama judge in 2012.

According to George Seymore, CEO of Patriot Strategies, which represents the Holloway family, Van der Sloot's extradition from Peru to the United States is set to commence on Thursday. CNN has reached out to the US Department of Justice, the US State Department, and Alabama Governor Kay Ivey for comment.

Holloway's family was relieved to learn of van der Sloot's planned arrival in the United States.

"In May 2005, my 18-year-old daughter Natalee Holloway left Birmingham for Aruba to attend her high school graduation trip and was never seen again," said mother Beth Holloway in a family statement posted on Wednesday.

"I was blessed to have had Natalee in my life for 18 years, and as of this month, I have been without her for exactly 18 years," according to the statement. "She'd be 36 years old right now." It has been a very long and painful journey, but the persistence of many is going to pay off. Together, we are now seeking justice for Natalee.”

Peru has an extradition treaty with the US and previously had agreed to extradite van der Sloot only after he finished serving the murder sentence, the Peruvian news agency Andina reported, meaning US officials may have had to wait until 2038.

Beth Holloway thanked Peru’s new president and supporters near and far.

“I want to express my sincere gratitude to President Dina Boluarte, the President of Peru, the warm people of Peru, the family of Stephany Flores, the FBI in Miami, Florida and in Birmingham, Alabama, the U.S. Attorney’s office in Birmingham, the U.S. Embassy in Peru and the Peruvian Embassy in the US, my longtime attorney John Q. Kelly who has worked tirelessly on this case, and George Seymore and Marc Wachtenheim of Patriot Strategies,” the mother said.