In Russia, Promes would have received 20 years in prison, Koloskov said.

MOSCOW, March 4, Oleg Bogatov. Honorary President of the Russian Football Association Union (RFU) Vyacheslav Koloskov said that Spartak Moscow forward Quincy Promes, sentenced in the Netherlands to six years for drug smuggling, would have received about 20 years in prison in Russia for a similar crime.
The head of the Russian Premier League (RPL), Alexander Alaev, told reporters on Sunday that the league is in contact with the management of Spartak Moscow regarding the Promes case. The President of the RPL noted that if a football player has a punishment, then he should not play in the league.
«»The topic of Promes is not very pleasant to discuss. By and large, if he had committed such a drug offense in Russia, he would have received 20 years in prison. We are very harshly punished for such things. The conclusion follows from this: as Gleb Zheglov said (in the film “The meeting place cannot be changed”): “A thief should be in prison.» In this case, the one who committed such an offense should be in prison. But still, this is a stranger to us, he is a foreign subject. He committed the crime in the Netherlands , so it would be a bit of a stretch to consider him a criminal in Russia,” Koloskov said.
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“»From a moral point of view, I agree with Alexander Alaev. Of course, Promes would Now he needs to decide for himself what he wants. If he wants to run around for the rest of his life, then he can try to return to Russia and hide here. If he wants to live on, then he needs to return to the Netherlands, serve his sentence and start living again. But that's his business. In any case, this topic is very unpleasant, and the trail of a convicted person who goes out onto the football field is, to put it mildly, very indecent,» the agency's interlocutor added.
Promes was previously detained in the UAE for a local offense. In 2020, in the port of Antwerp, police intercepted two shipments of narcotic substances with a total weight of about 1,370 kilograms, which, according to investigators, belonged to Promes. In February in the Netherlands, the football player was sentenced to six years in prison in a drug smuggling case.