( CNN ) -- Joran van der Sloot told a judge and prosecutor Tuesday that he would prefer to finish serving a 28-year murder sentence in Peru rather than be extradited to the United States to face charges related to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway , his Peruvian lawyer said . Representatives from the U.S. Embassy and the FBI attended the extradition hearing , which was not open to the public , Maximo Altez told InSession on Tru TV . A conviction in the United States could affect van der Sloot 's chances of being paroled in Peru , said Altez . He noted that a long-standing extradition treaty between the two countries means that van der Sloot will likely be extradited , despite his stated preference about remaining in Peru . Peruvian judges in January sentenced the Dutchman to 28 years in prison for the murder in 2010 of Stephany Flores . He is also the prime suspect in the disappearance of Holloway . U.S. authorities want to try van der Sloot on charges of extortion and wire fraud in the Holloway case . `` I think he will be extradited within the next three months , '' Altez said last month . `` He will go to trial in the United States . Once he is sentenced , he will return to Peru to finish serving his 28 years , and then go back to the States to serve whatever sentence he gets there . '' In June 2010 , a federal grand jury in Alabama indicted him after allegations that he tried to extort $ 250,000 from Holloway 's mother , Beth Holloway . Van der Sloot offered to provide what turned out to be bogus information about the whereabouts of Holloway 's remains in exchange for the money , according to the indictment . He was allegedly given $ 25,000 , which authorities say he used to travel to Peru for a poker tournament . If found guilty of extortion , he could be sentenced to 25 years in prison . Van der Sloot admitted to killing Flores , 21 , in his Lima hotel room . The judges gave him a sentence two years short of the 30-year maximum . They ordered he be expelled from Peru at the end of his sentence and required him to pay about $ 74,500 in reparations to Flores ' relatives . Van der Sloot confessed to robbery in addition to murder , admitting that he stole Flores ' belongings , including more than $ 300 in local currency , credit cards and the victim 's van as a means to leave the country . He fled to Chile and was arrested a few days later . Another van der Sloot attorney , Jose Luis Jimenez , has said that his client was under special stress the day of the 2010 murder , which marked five years after Holloway , an 18-year-old from Alabama , disappeared while vacationing on Aruba . Van der Sloot , who was among the last people reported to have been seen with Holloway , was detained twice but never charged in the case . `` The world had been against him for five years before this case , for a murder he said he never committed and for which there is no evidence whatsoever , '' Jimenez has said . Investigators have said they believe van der Sloot killed Flores after she found something related to the Holloway case on his computer while visiting him in his hotel room . The two met while van der Sloot was in town for the poker tournament . Judges described how Flores hit van der Sloot in the face after reading the item on Holloway , leading him to hit her in the face with his elbow . Flores fainted and van der Sloot tried to strangle her , but she was still breathing , so he suffocated her with his shirt . Van der Sloot then tried to clean the room by removing the sheets and changing his bloodied shirt , they said . He was caught in a taxi near the Chilean central coastal city of Vina del Mar . Holloway 's body has not been found , and no one has been charged in relation to the case in Aruba . About 6Â½ years after Holloway was last reported seen , in May 2005 , she was declared legally dead .
Tru TV says he 'd rather finish serving sentence in Alabama , lawyer says . Maximo Altez Sloot was sentenced to 21 in prison in Peru for a murder there . He is charged with extortion in Peru in connection with the Natalee Holloway case .