The convicted footballer Quincy Promes (33) was extradited by the United Arab Emirates (VAE) on Friday and is on the way to the Netherlands. This confirms a spokesperson for the Public Prosecution Service NRCafter reporting from ANP and De Telegraaf. Promes has been sentenced in the Netherlands to a prison sentence of 7.5 years due to drug trafficking and abuse.
Last week the former player of Ajax and the Dutch national team, among others, was arrested in Dubai, where he spent the last year and a half. At that time it was not yet clear whether the arrest was related to an extradition request to the Netherlands. The OM did have said earlier that the extradition request was at an “advanced stage.” The Netherlands has had a extradition treaty With the VAE.
Promes was convicted in 2024 for managing drug transports and in the previous year for the mistreatment of his cousin in 2019; together good for 7.5 prison sentence. The former footballer was in the VAE because during a training camp of his former club, the Russian Spartak Moscow, he was arrested in Dubai after a traffic accident. As a result, he could not travel back to Russia and his contract with Spartak was terminated shortly thereafter.
Promes has appealed, although it is not yet known when that will be done.
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