The former Sevilla winger taken into custody after the charges of cocaine trafficking

Former Sevilla winger and current Spartak Moscow forward Quincy Promes has been arrested on charges of cocaine trafficking. The 32-year-old man was sentenced to six years in prison and is currently in Dutch custody.

That phrase comes from import, export, possess and transport 1,363 tons of cocaine in 2020, which were discovered in a shipping container in Antwerp after arriving from Brazil. The container was also transporting sea salt.

Promes has been playing in Russia lately as there is no extradition policy with the Netherlands, however AS Diary they say he was recently filmed bribing Russian police. The arrest was made in Dubai with the cooperation of the authorities in the United Arab Emirates. His trial in the Netherlands took place with Promes in exile in Russia.

His checkered history with the authorities also includes an incident where he stabbed his cousin in the leg, and was ordered to pay €7,000 in compensation. According to Dutch intelligence, Promes also invested €200k of his own money in his drug trafficking business.

He stops SevilleThe fifth most expensive signing ever, joined from Spartak originally in 2017 for a fee of 21 million euros. He would be sold a year later to Ajax for 15.7 million euros.