Quincy Promes had a leading role in the import of two shipments of cocaine, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) stated today during a so-called pro forma session. The former Ajax player is suspected of importing more than 1,300 kilos of cocaine. Promes would have had intensive contact with the extractors via PGP messages and directed them to a warehouse where the cargo could be removed from a container.
“Quincy Promes would be fully engaged in drug trafficking,” the prosecutor said this afternoon. Since 2018, signals have already been received by the Criminal Intelligence Team (TCI) that Promes is moving in the world of international drug trafficking. Promes was still playing football in Spain at the time, but a year later he decides to sign with Ajax.
75,000 euros invested
According to the Public Prosecution Service, Promes invested about 75,000 euros in two loads of drugs totaling about 1300 kilos. The consignments of drugs were brought into the port of Antwerp at the beginning of 2020. The first batch, hidden in a container of bags of salt, has never been found. A second batch was intercepted.
With an encrypted telephone, Promes would have spoken about importing the drugs. “My boys are on their way to Antwerp”, he would have sent to co-defendant Marylio V. The transport arrived at the end of January. The extractors would have sent photos of a warehouse and the contents of the container via a group chat. The blocks of cocaine are said to have been marked with a tiger logo.
A few days later – January 30 – a second cargo is intercepted. Promes is said to have responded to this with ‘Shit, half the whole profit’. Marylio V. would then say ‘that it is the risk of the profession’.
At the end of last week it was announced that the Public Prosecution Service had decided to bring Promes to court. The reason was the suspicion of involvement in the cocaine trade. Two batches of coke were intercepted in the port of Antwerp in January 2020, according to the Public Prosecution Service, the former Ajax player would have invested in the batches and had contact with the Surinamese drug lord Piet Wortel.
The first signals
In addition to the PGP messages that are in the hands of the Public Prosecution Service, Promes was also tapped. This also brought to light another incident, in the summer of 2020, Promes is said to have stabbed his cousin in the leg during a family party in Abcoude. Promes is said to have spoken over the telephone about the stabbing incident: “The conversations clearly show that Promes stabbed,” said the public prosecutor during the substantive treatment of that case.
Verdict in two weeks
At the beginning of March, the Public Prosecution Service demanded another two years in prison for the stabbing incident. However, Robert Malewicz, Promes’ lawyer, asked for the investigation to be reopened. According to him, it was impossible to test whether the telephone taps could be used in the criminal case. The court agreed to Malewicz’s request, after which the OM had to add the documents about the taps to the criminal file. The lawyer and the public prosecutor discussed the legality today, but the court has not yet ruled on it. She will rule on the case on June 19.