Former Netherlands star Quincy Promes has earned a six-year prison sentence for trafficking drugs, Alex Young reports for The Standard.

Promes, who has starred in Ajax and Sevilla colors and now plies his trade at Russian side Spartak Moscow, was absent during court hearings in Amsterdam and was sentenced in absentia.

The 32-year-old’s lawyers told Dutch newspaper AD Promes that the sentence would be appealed as Promes denies the charges of importing, exporting, transporting, and possessing the drugs.

Prosecutors last month sought a nine-year sentence for Promes for his involvement in the smuggling of 1,360kg of cocaine through the port of Antwerp, Belgium, to the Netherlands in two shipments in 2020.

The court said phone taps had shown that Promes had been directly involved with the shipments of the drugs, hidden in shipments of salt from Brazil, and their further transport from the port.

In another Dutch court case, the 32-year-old former Ajax Amsterdam and Sevilla forward was last year 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 filed an appeal against that sentence as well.