Former Ajax footballer is sentenced to SIX YEARS in prison for smuggling cocaine

Former Ajax star Quincy Promes has been handed a six-year prison sentence for his involvement in smuggling over 1,350 kilos of cocaine.

Promes was charged last May over his alleged involvement in smuggling the cocaine, which was intercepted in Antwerp in January 2020 in the form of two batches of 650kg and 713kg each.

Now, the Public Prosecution Service have officially found Promes and a 32-year-old co-suspect, guilty of importing, exporting, transporting and possessing the drugs.

It is alleged the cocaine was hidden in a shipment of sea salt from Brazil, where the drugs were transported from in two containers to Antwerp.

According to NOS, the former Ajax winger failed to turn up for the trial and, thus, never made a statement about the offenses charged against him.

Further reports suggested that the former Netherlands international feels 'he's untouchable' - given the fact he avoided attending the court dates.

According to NL Times, prosecutors said: 'He seems to think he is untouchable in Russia or abroad'.

It's also reported that prosecutors wanted to know 'how such a successful footballer allowed himself to be drawn so deeply into crime.'

Dutch officials had initially sought out a nine-year prison sentence for the Spartak Moscow forward, when the case was brought forward last month.

When demanding the nine-year sentence, prosecutors alleged that Promes 'normalises and almost romanticises the cocaine trade'.

Prosecutors claim Promes' wealth meant he had money to invest and was one step higher on the organisational ladder as a result.

'The case came to light after the police Criminal Intelligence Team received information that the 32-year-old man who now lives in Russia was involved in the cocaine trade,' the Dutch Public