Dutch football player Quincy Promes prosecuted for importing 1,300 kilos of cocaine | Foreign Football

The former Ajax player – now a footballer at the Russian Spartak Moscow – has long been suspected of involvement in cocaine smuggling. The Dutch Public Prosecution Service has now decided to prosecute him for involvement in the import of cocaine, which was intercepted in the port of Antwerp. The first load involved 650 blocks of cocaine of one kilo each, while the second was intended to smuggle more than 712 kilos into the Netherlands.

It is not the first time that Quincy Promes has come into contact with the court. The attacker is suspected of stabbing his nephew during a family party at the end of July 2020. The nephew suffered a serious knee injury in that stabbing incident. Last year, tapped telephone conversations between Promes and family members came to light. It concerns conversations with his father and mother, in which the then Ajax player admits that he stabbed his cousin.

The recordings were made just after the stabbing, the Dutch TV program ‘Nieuwsuur’ reported. “No one is going to steal from us. (…) He is bold. He has known today. I could not help myself. Sorry auntie, forgive me,” said Promes, among other things. A little later he asks his mother where he hit his cousin. “Then he was lucky,” said Promes after hearing that he had stabbed the knife in the leg.

The Public Prosecution Service previously wanted to charge him with attempted manslaughter, but now sticks to aggravated assault and demands two years in prison.

On Monday afternoon, June 5, the court in Amsterdam will hold a first pre-trial hearing in the new case with the investigation name Porto. Promes will not be present due to contractual obligations at his Russian club Spartak Moscow. He also fears being arrested because the Public Prosecution Service wants to hear about his involvement in drug trafficking.

Promes was a Dutch international fifty times, but has not been selected since the stabbing and thus missed the World Cup in Qatar. The striker played for Ajax at the time of the facts. In February 2021 he returned to Spartak, whose colors he also defended from 2014 to 2018.