Quincy Promes lands 6 years in jail for serving to smuggle over 1,000kgs of cocaine
Former Ajax and Netherlands winger Quincy Promes has been sentenced to 6 years in jail for smuggling cocaine.
Promes, 32, was charged final May over his involvement in importing two shipments of cocaine totalling 1,350kgs. They had been intercepted in Antwerp in January 2020, a yr earlier than he left his house nation and re-joined Spartak Moscow.
He’s now been discovered responsible of importing, exporting, transporting and possessing the medicine, which had been allegedly hidden in a cargo of sea salt from Brazil. Prosecutors had been searching for a nine-year jail time period, however that was minimize to 6.
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However, Promes hasn’t attended any of his court docket dates they usually declare he thinks he is “untouchable” as he continues to play in Russia. He was additionally sentenced to 18 months behind bars for stabbing his cousin final yr.
But he hasn’t spent a minute in jail as a result of the Netherlands do not have an extradition treaty with Russia amid their conflict with Ukraine. He performed the complete 90 minutes in Spartak’s 5-0 pleasant win towards Al-Ahli in Abu Dhabi on the weekend.
Dutch officers are mentioned to be confused as to how such a profitable footballer may very well be drawn into the unlawful commerce, which they are saying he “normalises and almost romanticises”.
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Promes’ wealth is claimed to have helped him soar up the organisational ladder as he had vital funds to take a position. His involvement was partly uncovered by police putting audio-monitoring gear in his automotive.
He was initially arrested in December 2020 for the knife assault on his member of the family. Just two months later, he headed again to Moscow the place he’d beforehand performed from 2014 to 2018.
As effectively as Ajax, Promes performed for Twente and La Liga aspect Sevilla. He additionally racked up 50 caps on the worldwide stage, scoring seven targets.
