サッカー元オランダ代表FW、コカイン密輸で禁錮6年
過去にオランダ・エールディビジのアヤックスなどでプレーし、現在はロシア1部リーグのスパルタク・モスクワに所属するプロメスは出廷しなかった。
過去に行われたロシアからの身柄引き渡しの試みはいずれも失敗しており、アムステルダム地方裁判所は同日、逮捕状を発行した。
裁判所によれば、プロメスは2020年、共犯者の協力を得てブラジルから1363キロのコカインをベルギー・アントワープ経由でオランダに密輸した。
無罪を主張していた弁護人側は判決後、オランダの公共放送NOSに対し、控訴する意向だと述べた。
プロメスは親戚を刺した別の事件でも禁錮18月を言い渡されている。
プロメスはオランダ代表で50試合に出場して7ゴールを記録しているが、代表で最後にプレーしたのはチェコに敗れた2021年の欧州選手権決勝トーナメント1回戦となっている。【翻訳編集AFPBBNews】
〔AFP=時事〕(2024/02/15-18:14)
Ex-Dutch international gets six years for coke smuggling
A Dutch court sentenced former Ajax and international winger Quincy Promes to six years in prison Wednesday, convicting him of smuggling more than one thousand kilogrammes of cocaine.
The 32-year-old, now playing for Spartak Moscow, was not in court to hear the sentence, a spokesperson told AFP.
Previous attempts to extradite him from Moscow have failed and on Wednesday judges at the Amsterdam District Court issued a warrant for his arrest.
Summing up in court, presiding judge M. Vaandrager said Promes was an example to many, especially young people, due to his footballing talent.
The suspect is regularly in the news, is active on social media, and has fans worldwide, the judge said.
This makes it even worse that he has tried to increase his wealth... by participating in major international drugs trafficking.
All things considered, the court finds a six-year prison sentence appropriate, the judge said in a statement.
The court said Promes had smuggled a total of 1,363 kilogrammes of cocaine from Brazil in 2020, through the Belgian port of Antwerp into the Netherlands with the help of an accomplice.
The drugs haul was stashed in bags of salt in containers on board a ship -- later partially intercepted by customs officials.
The ruling was based on wire-tapped conversations and encrypted messages Promes had sent under the pseudonym Fantasma.
Prosecutors had called for a nine-year jail sentence but the court ruled they had based their request on previous cases where the punishment was too harsh.
Lawyers for Promes had entered a plea of not guilty.
The footballer was to appeal Wednesday's judgement, his lawyers told the NOS public broadcaster after the verdict.
- 'Flight risk' -
Judges also called Promes a flight risk.
The suspect resides in Russia, where he works as a professional football player, judge Vaandrager said.
The court understands that the suspect chose this because he does not want to be detained and then no longer will be able to fulfil his obligations as a professional football player.
The court sees this as sufficient reason to conclude that the suspect could evade the execution of the prison sentence imposed on him, the judge added.
In a separate case, Promes had already been sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay compensation for stabbing his cousin over a stolen necklace.
Promes won 50 caps for the Netherlands, scoring seven goals, and was part of the side that lost to the Czech Republic in the Last 16 match at the Euro 2020 championships, which was played in 2021 due to Covid.
He has not worn the orange jersey since.
In 2019, Promes joined Dutch giants Ajax in Amsterdam, after a 15-million-euro transfer from Spanish La Liga outfit Sevilla.
In 2021, he left the Dutch capital for Moscow and has played for Spartak ever since, following a previous stint from 2014-2018, during which he was named Russia's footballer of the year.
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