The Hague, June 20, 2025 (AFP) - Dutch footballer Promes extradited over cocaine smuggling case

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2025-06-20

Former Ajax and Dutch international footballer Quincy Promes has been extradited from Dubai to the Netherlands, prosecutors said Friday, after a conviction for smuggling more than a tonne of cocaine. A Dutch court sentenced the former winger in February 2024 to six years behind bars, finding him guilty of helping to smuggle 1,363 kilogrammes (3,000 pounds) of cocaine from Brazil in 2020. In a separate case, the 33-year-old had already been senten......

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