If it is up to the Public Prosecution Service, former Ajax player Quincy Promes will receive a nine-year prison sentence for his role in the import of two large shipments of cocaine. The public prosecutor said this today during the hearing in the court on Parnassusweg in Amsterdam-Zuid. The Public Prosecution Service demanded eight years in prison against Promes’ cousin from Purmerend.
During the hearing, the public prosecutor said that Promes could be linked to an account on the Sky messaging service called ‘Fantasma’. This is said to have emerged from digital data collected by a police observation team. Messages from others would also have stated that Promes was ‘Fantasma’. Furthermore, the former Ajax player is said to have said in his car that in addition to a normal telephone, he had another encrypted telephone for ‘business’. He would earn more from that than from football, he is said to have said.
Absent
The footballer, who has been playing for Spartak Moscow since 2021 and earlier was sentenced to a year and a half in prison for the stab of his cousin, was not there himself. He also did not attend hearings about the stabbing. His lawyer told one of the judges that this was due to his work as a football player.
Promes is said to have smuggled the drugs together with another cousin. In total it would have amounted to 1,300 kilos of cocaine. That amount of drugs was supposed to come to Belgium in two containers, but one of those containers was intercepted by customs. The cousin who is also suspected of drug smuggling was present. He said he had only put two eviscerators in touch with the client. “I was of the opinion, I put them in touch, I stand outside it.” He says he didn’t earn anything from it. He said nothing about Promes’ possible role.
To inform
During the hearing, the public prosecutor read a large number of messages that Promes and his cousin allegedly sent. For example, Promes is said to have eventually satisfied the extractors, who had been working in a warehouse in Belgium removing cocaine from a load of bags of salt, with ‘soldier, lots of stripes’. According to the Public Prosecution Service, the cousin also responded enthusiastically. However, profits are said to have been ‘halved’ by the intervention of Belgian customs. According to the Public Prosecution Service, 17,000 euros in cash was found in the cousin’s home.
The drug case states that app messages in which Promes confessed to the stabbing surfaced as a result of the investigation into drug smuggling, independently of the stabbing. The footballer immediately appealed against that verdict, the sentence is not yet irrevocable.