Dutch footballer Quincy Promeswho plays for Spartak Moscow and is wanted by his country’s justice system for drug trafficking, has been arrested by the police in Dubaicity in the United Arab Emirates.
“The Dutch citizen, Quincy Promes, was arrested on Thursday and taken to a police station“, the Emirati police reported to the Russian agency TASS this Friday.
Meanwhile, the Dutch Prosecutor’s Office confirmed to TASS that the former Sevilla and Ajax footballer was detained at the same airport for a offense committed in the Emirates and not in response to the extradition request.
Russian Telegram channels added that Promes has already been released, but it cannot leave Emirates territory for the moment.
Russian and foreign sports media stated that the reason for the arrest could be a traffic violation, which will prevent him from playing with his team in the first league game after the winter break.
Spartak, a team led by the Spanish Guillermo Abascal, will face the almighty on Saturday Zenit in Saint Petersburg.
For this reason, Spartak announced that it will adopt a disciplinary sanction against the 32-year-old playerwho has scored 114 goals with the Moscow team’s shirt, eight in the current season.
The Netherlands does not have an extradition agreement with Russia, but yes with the United Arab Emirateswhich would pave the way for his delivery to the authorities of his country.
In mid-February a Dutch court sentenced Promes in absentia to six years in prison for his involvement in the trafficking of more than 1,350 kilos of cocaine in two shipments that traveled from Brazil to the Belgian port of Antwerp in January 2020.
Last year the Dutch Justice also sentenced Promes to a year and a half in prison for stabbing and “causing serious physical injuries” to his cousin on one knee during a family party in July 2020.
Ajax, the club where the Dutch international was playing when he was arrested in 2020, sold him two months later to Spartak Moscow for 8.5 million euros plus variablesalmost half of the more variable 15.7 that he paid to Sevilla, in which he played during the 2018/19 season.
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