Former Dutch worldwide footballer and as soon as a goal of Manchester United, Quincy Promes, has been sentenced to 6 years in jail in absentia for drug trafficking.
Amsterdam District Court dominated that the 32-year-old – who performs within the Russian Premier League for Spartak Moscow – was concerned within the import and export of a whole bunch of kilograms of cocaine in 2020.
Promes, who lives in Moscow, didn’t attend his trial within the Dutch capital and isn’t anticipated to return to the Netherlands within the foreseeable future.
Prosecutors had requested judges to condemn him to 9 years for his involvement within the smuggling of 1,360kg of cocaine by means of the port of Antwerp in Belgium to the Netherlands in two shipments.
The court docket mentioned phone-tapping confirmed Promes had been instantly concerned with the shipments of the medication, hidden in shipments of salt from Brazil, and their additional transport from the port.
In a written verdict, the court docket added that Promes bought concerned within the drug imports regardless of being a extremely paid footballer with legions of followers and followers on social media.
“This makes it even more objectionable that the suspect tries to increase his wealth (and possibly also prestige in certain circles) through involvement in large international drug transports,” the court docket mentioned.
Promes’s legal professionals instructed judges he denied the allegations of importing, exporting, transporting and possessing the medication.
They instructed Dutch newspaper AD the footballer would attraction his sentence.
In one other Dutch court docket case, he was final 12 months sentenced in absentia to 18 months in jail for assault, in reference to a combat in 2020 the place he stabbed his cousin within the knee.
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Promes has additionally filed an attraction in opposition to that sentence.
The former Ajax and Sevilla ahead made 50 appearances and scored seven instances for the Dutch nationwide facet, however was struck from the staff after he was charged with trafficking in 2021.
Source: information.sky.com”