By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter

Joran van der Sloot is desperate to get back home to the comforts of Castro Castro prison and he is not afraid to pay Peruvian officials in order to get there, Breaking Celebrity News is exclusively reporting.

The convicted killer is currently serving 28 years in the maximum security Piedras Gordas facility for the May 2010 murder of student Stephany Flores, but he is determined not to be there for long, according to an insider.

“Joran has hired a new lawyer who is hoping to get him transferred back to Castro Castro by the end of February, but says it will cost at least $20,000 to get him moved,” a source exclusively gold Breaking Celebrity News.

Van der Sloot confessed to murdering the 21-year-old, whose body was found beaten and strangled in a Lima hotel room after the pair met during a poker tournament.

He was sentenced on January 13 but since then his attorney Jose Luis Jimenez filed an appeal to have