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Quincy Promes: Football star extradited from Dubai to face prison in cocaine smuggling case

Spartak's Quincy Promes looks on, during the Europa League Group C soccer match between Leicester City and Spartak Moscow at the King Power Stadium in Leicester, England, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021
Spartak's Quincy Promes looks on, during the Europa League Group C soccer match between Leicester City and Spartak Moscow at the King Power Stadium in Leicester, England, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021 (Copyright 2021. The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
  • Quincy Promes, a former Netherlands international, has been extradited from the United Arab Emirates to the Netherlands.
  • He is set to serve jail sentences for drug trafficking and assault.
  • A Dutch court previously sentenced Promes in absentia to six years for his involvement in two cocaine shipments in 2020.
  • He also received an 18-month sentence in absentia for stabbing a cousin in the knee during a 2020 incident.
  • Promes denies all charges and has filed appeals in both cases.
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