Former Ajax and Netherlands international footballer Quincy Promes has reportedly been extradited to the Netherlands to begin serving a combined seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence related to drug trafficking and a previous violent assault conviction.
According to Dutch news outlet De Telegraaf, the 33-year-old was transported under tight security via a chartered plane and placed in detention following a formal extradition request by Dutch authorities. Promes, who had been playing in Dubai, had previously avoided arrest and was living abroad, despite receiving two separate convictions in Dutch courts.
In February 2024, Promes was sentenced to six years in prison after being found guilty of smuggling 1,360 kilograms of cocaine into the Netherlands and Belgium in 2020. He was also sentenced to 18 months for stabbing his cousin during a private altercation, bringing his total jail time to 7.5 years.
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The Dutch court ruled that Promes played a direct role in organizing two major drug shipments. Evidence reportedly included intercepted phone calls and testimony from eyewitnesses, which prosecutors said clearly linked the footballer to a criminal drug network.
Despite denying all charges, the court found the evidence compelling enough to proceed with sentencing in absentia. Now extradited, Promes will serve his time in a Dutch detention center, with the earliest possible release date projected as 2030, assuming parole eligibility.
Promes, once hailed as a rising star in European football, had a glittering career at Ajax and Spartak Moscow. His fall from grace marks one of the most shocking criminal downfalls in modern football history.
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