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Quincy Promes made 50 appearances for the Dutch national team
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Former Netherlands national football player Quincy Promes has been arrested in Dubai.
Dutch prosecutors confirmed this.
The arrest was therefore due to a suspected crime in the United Arab Emirates - and not as a result of the prison sentence that Promes is expecting for cocaine trafficking.
Two weeks ago, the 32-year-old was sentenced to six years in prison in the Netherlands for smuggling more than a ton of cocaine.
Promes and his co-defendant and uncle, who has already been convicted, are said to belong to a network of drug traffickers, many of whose members have now been arrested.
"We learned from our contact there that Promes was arrested for a local offense and not for the Dutch case," wrote Franklin Wattimena of the Dutch public prosecutor's office in an email to the AFP news agency.
"We will not comment at this point on whether we will request his extradition or not."
However, Dutch news channel NOS reported that Dutch prosecutors were "in discussions with the United Arab Emirates" about detaining Promes.
In 2020, Promes is said to have seriously injured his cousin
The footballer himself was missing from the trial in the Netherlands when the verdict against Promes was announced.
He is currently under contract with Spartak Moscow and previously played for Ajax Amsterdam and FC Sevilla, among others.
In his career he has 50 international matches for the Netherlands.
In another case, the public prosecutor's office demanded two years in prison for Promes just last March.
He is said to have stabbed a cousin in the knee with a knife at a family celebration in July 2020, seriously injuring him.
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