This Tuesday the Netherlands Prosecutor’s Office prosecuted Quincy Promes, a player for Spartak Moscow and the Dutch national team, for being involved in the trafficking of more than 1,300 kilos of cocaine which entered the port of Antwerp in Belgium in two batches; one of 650 kilos and another of 720 kilos.
Promes is also being prosecuted along with another 31-year-old man who had been arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking and money laundering on April 25.
The Public Ministry of the Netherlands reported that these amounts of cocaine entered in 2020, when the footballer belonged to Ajax Amsterdam. The preliminary hearing is scheduled for next Monday, which the player will not attend due to commitments with his club in Russia.
On the other hand, Robert Malewicz, the defendant’s lawyer, limited himself to not offering statements at the moment: “I will give a more detailed explanation during the hearing next Monday,” he explained to the Dutch agency ANP.
Currently, the footballer has to play the last day of the Russian championship, in which he scored 20 goals to be second in the scorers’ table, while his team is third in the championship.
background with justice
Promes is not the first time that he has been involved in a crime, since last March 2021 he was tried in Amsterdam for allegedly stabbing his cousin. A chain stolen from an aunt would have been the reason. The stabbing occurred in July 2020, shortly after a party for one of Promes’s brothers in an Abcoude warehouse.
The Public Ministry had demanded two years in prison against the Spartak Moscow footballer. However, Promes only spent a couple of nights at the police station, the Prosecutor’s Office did not request preventive detention for the player after the interrogations, and the footballer’s lawyer has assured that her client was not present at the time of the events.
“I am as surprised with everything that has happened as the rest of the world. Now I’m free and I think that says enough”, Promes commented on that occasion. This fact is totally isolated from the drug trafficking case for which he is currently accused.
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