Dutch international Quincy Promes of Spartak Moscow was charged on Tuesday by the Dutch Ministry of Public Administration with trafficking 1,300 kg of cocaine in two batches in Belgium in January 2020.
The shipments in question were intercepted in the port of Antwerp in Belgium and concern a Spartak player who has played 50 times for the Netherlands national team, is suspected of drug trafficking and criminal conspiracy.
A preliminary hearing in a second case involving the 31-year-old attacker is set for Monday, after the Ministry of Public Opinion reopened a criminal investigation into charges of stabbing a family member in the knee in July 2020.
The murder thesis was dismissed due to lack of evidence of a motive for aggression, which Promes denies, although police wiretapping showed that he confessed to the crime.
The player was arrested in 2020 and Ajax, where he played at the time, sold him to Spartak Moscow for 8.5 million euros, almost half the amount he paid Sevilla for him in 2018.
Promes had one of the best years of his career this year, scoring 25 goals in 36 games for the Moscow team he represented between 2014 and 2018.