Joran Van Der Sloot Got $25,000 from FBI Before Trip to Peru, Says Private Investigator

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (CBS/AP) In an effort to build an extortion case against Joran van der Sloot, the FBI gave the suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway the money that he used to fund the trip to Peru where he allegedly attacked and killed Stephany Flores, says a private investigator. 

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The investigator claims that van der Sloot should have been arrested before he left Aruba.

According to Bo Dietl, a retired New York City detective, FBI agents recorded a meeting last month in Aruba where van der Sloot told a lawyer for Natalee Holloway's family that he would provide information regarding their daughter's 2005 disappearance in exchange for money.

Federal agents seized this opportunity to build a case against the man now suspected of two murders and decided to give him $25,000; however, once the agents gave van der Sloot the money, they, according to Dietl, failed to detain the young man.

It is believed van der Sloot used the money to fly to Peru and attend a poker tournament where he met Flores and then, according to police, killed her in his hotel room exactly five years after the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.

Joran van der Sloot reportedly confessed to the murder of Stephany Flores, and remains in custody in Peru. Charges are expected to be filed in the Stephany Flores case in the near future.

He remains the prime suspect in the disappearance of Holloway, who vanished in Aruba during a high school graduation trip. Despite van der Sloot having been arrested twice in the Holloway case, Aruban prosecutors say they do not have enough evidence to put him behind bars.

The location of Holloway's remains continues to be a mystery.

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