Quincy Promes (foto: Instagram)
Former Dutch football star Quincy Promes has been sentenced to six years in prison early in 2024 for drug trafficking.
The Amsterdam court, in his hometown, found that the ex-national team player was involved in the import and export of hundreds of kilograms of cocaine in 2020. Quincy Promes, along with associates, transferred a total of 1,360 kilograms of cocaine from the port of Antwerp in Belgium to the Netherlands on two occasions.
This quantity of drugs is worth more than 76 million euros on the black market. His phone calls were monitored, revealing his direct involvement in transporting drugs from a port in Brazil and further transporting it from Belgium. Following the verdict, nine of his houses in the Netherlands were seized.
At the time of the sentencing, he was living in Moscow, where he had played for Spartak from 2014 to 2018 and from 2021 until last winter.
In late February 2024, he was detained at Al-Maktoum airport in Dubai, charged with fleeing after a traffic accident while Spartak was in the Emirates for training.
Although released from custody the next day, he was ordered to stay in the country until his trial, and was then re-arrested on March 12, following an official request from the Netherlands for his extradition.
He is currently serving his sentence in Al-Awir prison, described by Dutch media as a dreadful place, where up to 20 prisoners are crammed into cells meant for six, sleeping on the floor.
In such conditions, Promes has requested extradition to Russia, but it is uncertain whether this will be granted, while Dutch prosecutors simultaneously strive to bring him back to his native country to face criminal charges.
In addition to drug trafficking, he is also accused of a knife attack, as he allegedly stabbed a relative at a party in July 2020.