A Dutch court docket sentenced former Ajax and worldwide winger Quincy Promes to 6 years in jail on Wednesday, convicting him of trafficking greater than a thousand kilograms of cocaine.
The 32-year-old, now taking part in for Spartak Moscow, was not in court docket to listen to the sentence, a spokesman instructed AFP.
Earlier makes an attempt to extradite him from Moscow have failed.
Summarizing in court docket, presiding choose M. Vaandrager mentioned that Promes was an instance for a lot of, particularly younger folks, due to his soccer expertise.
“The suspect is commonly within the information, is energetic on social media, and has followers everywhere in the world,” the choose mentioned.
“This makes it even worse that he tried to extend his wealth … by taking part in main worldwide drug trafficking.”
“All issues thought-about, the court docket finds a sentence of six years in jail to be acceptable,” he mentioned in an announcement.
The court docket mentioned that Promes had smuggled a complete of 1,363 kilograms of cocaine from Brazil in 2020, via the Belgian port of Antwerp within the Netherlands with the assistance of an confederate.
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