Dutch prosecutors seek 9-year prison sentence for Spartak Moscow's Promes

On Wednesday, Dutch prosecutors said they were seeking a nine-year prison sentence for Spartak Moscow's Dutch forward Quincy Promes, who is being tried for drug trafficking.

Last year, prosecutors said the former international was suspected of smuggling 1,360 kg of cocaine from Antwerp, Belgium, to the Netherlands in two shipments in 2020.

Promes did not attend the court hearing in Amsterdam. His lawyers have told Dutch news agency ANP that he denies importing, exporting, transporting, and possessing drugs.

The cocaine was hidden in salt shipments from Brazil, prosecutors said on Wednesday.

Phone taps revealed that Promes had been directly involved in the drugs' shipment to Antwerp, as well as their subsequent transport and sale, they claimed.

In another Dutch court case, the 32-year-old former Ajax and Sevilla forward was sentenced in absentia to 18 months in prison for assault in 2020, following a fight in which he stabbed a cousin in the knee.

Promes has filed an appeal against the sentence.

He is currently living in Moscow, and it is unclear whether he will return to the Netherlands.

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