Dutch forward Promes prosecuted for drug trafficking
FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Europa League - Group C - Napoli v Spartak Moscow - Stadio Diego Armando Maradona, Naples, Italy - September 30, 2021 Spartak Moscow's Quincy Promes celebrates after the match REUTERS/Ciro De Luca/File Photo
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Moscow's Dutch forward Quincy Promes is being prosecuted in the Netherlands for
his alleged involvement in drugs trafficking, Dutch prosecutors said on
Tuesday.
The
31-year-old former international is suspected of having been involved with
smuggling 1,360 kilos of cocaine to the Netherlands or Belgium in two shipments
in 2020, the prosecutors stated in an email.
Promes'
lawyer did not immediately reply to a request for comment from Reuters and his
office's phone went unanswered after business hours on Tuesday.
Dutch
newspaper Het Parool quoted his lawyer as saying he would comment on the case
during a pro forma hearing scheduled for Monday, which news agency ANP said
Promes is not expected to attend.
Former Ajax
Amsterdam and Sevilla winger Promes, who was capped 50 times, is currently also
facing charges of assault in the Netherlands, after he was arrested in
connection with a July 2020 stabbing in the Dutch town of Abcoude.
It later
emerged that the alleged victim was Promes' cousin and the incident took place
in a fight after a family party. Promes has denied involvement.
A hearing in
this case is also scheduled for Monday.
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