Leading European soccer player Quincy Promes, who was convicted in absentia for drug smuggling last month in the Netherlands, has been arrested in Dubai at the request of Dutch prosecutors who are seeking his extradition, according to his lawyers.
Promes, who has played as forward with major European clubs Ajax and Sevilla and now Spartak Moscow, was convicted in absentia to six years in prison after Dutch prosecutors successfully argued he was central to a drug trafficking operation involved in smuggling some 1,360 kilograms of cocaine from Brazil to the Netherlands in 2020 in two separate incidents.
‘Staying in luxury in Dubai’ The Amsterdam Public Prosecution office confirmed in a statement Wednesday that “a 32-year-old man residing in Moscow has been arrested in Dubai,” noting that the arrest was made based on a Red Notice issued by the Netherlands. Red Notices ask law enforcement organizations to find and then provisionally arrest a suspect. “The arrested man was reportedly staying in luxury in Dubai according to various media reports.
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