Dutch player Promes fights against extradition and resumes career in UAE

The Netherlands national team striker, boasting an impressive 50 international caps, has officially signed with United FC of Dubai. The club, competing in the second tier of the league, announced the exciting news on their social media platforms.

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 Ajax Amsterdam and Sevilla forward was arrested in Dubai in March at the request of the Dutch public prosecution service when he was at a training camp with 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 restrictions, which include not leaving the United Arab Emirates.

Spartak Moscow terminated his contract at the end of June.