The Dutch prosecutor’s office asks to sentence Spartak Moscow football player Quincy Promes to nine years for cocaine smuggling

The Dutch prosecutor’s office demanded that the forward of the Russian Premier League club Spartak be sentenced to nine years in prison for smuggling a large amount of cocaine (more than 1.3 thousand kg). Note that Promes had previously received a year and a half in prison for stabbing his cousin. However, the footballer remains inaccessible to Dutch justice for now.

On Wednesday, the Dutch prosecutor’s office demanded during the trial in the case of Spartak forward Quincy Promes that he be sentenced to nine years in prison. The prosecution considers Promes’s participation in the smuggling of a large consignment of drugs to be proven. The case was opened back in 2020.

Quincy Promes is charged with active participation in organizing the illegal import of two shipments of cocaine through the port of Antwerp – 650 and 712 kg. One of the shipments was intercepted by the police.

By that time, Promes was already under surveillance.

In one of the conversations with an accomplice, the football player said that due to the actions of the authorities, “his profit was halved.” This, according to the prosecutor’s office, incriminates him.

Also in court, as AD reports, printouts of Promes’s negotiations with an accomplice who is involved in the case under the name Marylio V. and is Promes’ uncle, according to journalists, were read out. In conversations, relatives discuss the progress of preparations for the delivery of cocaine and how to pay the direct perpetrators.

The mentioned Marillo Vi partially admitted his guilt, but stated that he only took part in the search for premises for storing contraband. He did not testify against Promes.

In addition, the Red and Whites striker was allegedly associated with drug dealer Pete Wartel, to whom Promes paid €250 thousand for the lost cocaine “for his safety.”

Promes himself does not participate in court hearings. However, lawyer Robert Malevich insists that his client did not come to the trial not because he is hiding from justice, but because of some “additional obligations to Spartak.”

Let us remind you that Promes already has one conviction. In June 2023, the Amsterdam Court sentenced football player to one and a half years in prison for attacking his cousin. Later Promes submitted an appeal against this decision. The incident occurred in July 2020. According to media reports, the player had an argument with his cousin during a party and stabbed him. Allegedly, the football player suspected the latter of stealing jewelry from his aunt. It is noteworthy that Promes did not take part in that process either. Back in 2021, he returned to Spartak (he played for the red-whites from 2014 to 2018, after which he played for Sevilla and Ajax – from the latter he moved to Spartak).

According to AD, while Promes is playing in Russia, the Dutch authorities have almost no chance of achieving his extradition. There is a possibility that he could give out authorities of the UAE, where Spartak is at the training camp. But as already mentioned, the verdict in the first Promes case has been appealed and the verdict has not yet entered into force. So it will not be easy to achieve extradition.

Alexander Petrov