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Dutch Footballer Resumes Career In UAE Amid Extradition Battle
Former Dutch international, Quincy Promes is to resume his career in the United Arab Emirates where he is fighting extradition to the Netherlands after being sentenced to six years in prison in absentia for drug trafficking.
The striker, boasting 50 caps for the Netherlands, has signed United FC of Dubai, a club competing in the second tier, as announced on social media.
A Dutch court said earlier this year that Promes had been directly involved with the shipments of 1,360kg of cocaine from Brazil through the port of Antwerp, Belgium, to the Netherlands in two shipments in 2020.
The 32-year-old former forward for Ajax and Sevilla was detained in Dubai in March at the request of the Dutch public prosecution service while he was attending a training camp with the Russian club Spartak Moscow.
Last year, Promes was also sentenced in absentia to 18 months in jail for assault in connection with a fight in 2020 in which he stabbed a cousin in the knee.
Promes has denied all charges and has filed an appeal in both cases.
In May, he was released from detention under certain conditions, which included not leaving the United Arab Emirates.
Spartak Moscow terminated his contract at the end of June.
