CAPE TOWN: Former Dutch international Quincy Promes is to resume his career in the UAE where he is fighting extradition to the Netherlands after being sentenced to six years in prison in absentia for drug trafficking.
The striker, who has 50 caps for the Netherlands, has joined United FC of Dubai who play in the second tier.
A Dutch court said earlier this year that Promes had been directly involved with the shipments of 1,360kg of cocaine from Brazil through the port of Antwerp, Belgium, to the Netherlands in two shipments in 2020.
Promes, former Ajax and Sevilla forward, was arrested in Dubai in March at the request of the Dutch public prosecution service when he was at a training camp with Russian club Spartak Moscow.
Promes has denied all charges and has filed an appeal in both cases.
Published in Dawn, September 6th, 2024
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