Ex-Netherlands winger Promes extradited to serve prison sentence

Quincy Promes, a former Ajax winger, will serve a seven-and-a-half year prison sentence for aggravated assault and drug trafficking.

Last week, the 33-year-old was detained in Dubai at the request of the Dutch police.

Promes, who has been capped 50 times for the Netherlands, was given a six-year prison sentence in February 2024 for his part in the smuggling of more than a tonne of cocaine from Belgium into the Netherlands in 2020.

He has not yet served any time in prison for the crimes he committed in 2020, which he had previously been given an 18-month prison sentence for for allegedly stabbing his cousin in the knee at a family gathering.

The Dutchman has since been returned to the Netherlands, according to a prosecutor’s representative.

Promes made his Twente senior debut in 2009, making his first appearance since joining the club in 2009 with Russian side Spartak Moscow. He spent three years there.

Promes spent just one year in Spain before moving back to the Netherlands with Ajax after four years in the Russian capital.

In 2021, he rejoined Spartak Moscow, and he followed for three more years in Russia before making a move to Dubai United.

The winger scored seven goals for the national team in 2014, his first of Promes’ 50 caps. His final cap was from 2023.