Former PSV player Willy Scheepers has been jailed for eight years in Switzerland for money laundering and cocaine trafficking. The court in Zurich has determined this, the Swiss newspaper Blick reports. The 61-year-old former trainer of RKSV Nuenen has already served part of the sentence. If he is released, he will not be allowed to enter Switzerland for eight years.
Scheepers made seventeen official games for PSV between 1978 and 1981. After that, the defender played for Belgium’s Overpelt, various clubs in Denmark and the German SV Darmstadt ’98 before ending his active career with FC Dietikon.
He started his coaching career at this Swiss club, which earned him positions in Cyprus and at RKSV Nuenen.
An accomplice of Scheepers was sentenced to 5.5 in prison. Both also have to pay 20,000 euros for the profit they made from the coke trade. The more than 2 kilos of cocaine seized from them will be destroyed. Like, like report the Swiss daily, a car containing a room in which narcotics were smuggled. They also lose the two expensive wristwatches that were taken during the criminal investigation.
Scheepers’ mate made an extensive confession during the trial. He declined to say what the former top footballer had to do with the deals. It is not clear from the newspaper article whether Scheepers also made a statement. Both can still appeal.