has agreed to be handed over to the United States to face charges related to the disappearance of an American woman in Aruba nearly two decades ago, his lawyer said on Saturday.
Van der Sloot is the primary suspect in the disappearance.
"He (has) accepted, he has agreed to be transferred to be judged in the United States," van der Sloot's lawyer Maximo Altez told AFP.
The suspect had previously fought against an extradition to the United States.
The country in 2014 approved van der Sloot's eventual extradition to be tried in the United States, which was to take place at the end of his murder sentence, in 2038.
But earlier this month, Peruvian authorities changed tack and approved his temporary transfer to the United States early.
Van der Sloot was freed in Aruba in 2009 due to lack of evidence in the Holloway case.
While in Peruvian prison years later, in 2016, he told two journalists he had murdered Holloway, unaware he was being recorded.
Holloway's disappearance received widespread media coverage in the United States.