Former Ajax and Holland star Quincy Promes extradited to Netherlands to serve seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence
FOOTBALLER Quincy Promes has been extradited back to Holland to serve a seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence.
The former Ajax player has been a wanted man for stabbing his cousin and for being involved in drugs smuggling.
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