The Emirati authorities have arrested, at the request of the Netherlands, Quincy Promes, a Spartak Moscow footballer and former Sevilla player, sentenced to prison in two criminal cases, one of them to six years in prison for trafficking more than 1,350 kilos. of cocaine in two shipments from Brazil to the Belgian port of Antwerp in 2020.
According to the Dutch Prosecutor’s Office, the footballer has been detained in Dubai “after constructive cooperation between the authorities of the Emirates and the Netherlands.”
The prosecution does not confirm when it made this arrest request, nor if it has already submitted a formal extradition request to the Netherlands, which has a bilateral extradition treaty with the Emirates.
The former Ajax player, who is 32 years old, was convicted last February of drug trafficking, but the trial was held in absentia because the accused lives in Russia, where he has played for Spartak Moscow since 2021.
Promes has been accused of “importing, exporting, transporting and possessing 1,362.9 kilos of cocaine hidden in a shipment of sea salt from Brazil” and of having distributed the drug in two containers to move it by boat through the Western Scheldt (Dutch province of Zeeland) to the port of Antwerp.
The Criminal Intelligence Team (TCI) of the Dutch police received information indicating that Promes was involved in cocaine trafficking, possessed cryptographic phones and had invested 200,000 euros in the illegal business, so it decided to initiate a criminal investigation into the footballer. born in Amsterdam.
Last year, the Dutch Justice also sentenced Promes to a year and a half in prison for stabbing and “causing serious physical injuries” to his cousin in the knee during a family party in July 2020. The defendant has appealed this sentence and, In a civil case last month, it was determined that Promes must pay compensation to the victim.
Ajax, the team for which the Dutch international played when he was arrested in 2020, sold him two months later to Spartak Moscow for 8.5 million euros plus variables, almost half of the 15.7 million euros plus variables that he paid to Sevilla. , a team in which he played during the 2018/19 season.
