QUINCY PROMES has been jailed for six years.
The Dutch footballer, 32, was sentenced for helping smuggle 1,370kg of cocaine.
The court heard Promes had a "guiding and facilitating role" in the illegal activity.
The drugs were intercepted after being imported into Antwerp before traced messages implicated Promes.
It is understood the cocaine arrived disguised in a sea salt shipment from Brazil.
The two batches of 650kg and 713kg arrived on Dutch shores in January 2020.
The Public Prosecution Service also found another 32-year-old suspect guilty of importing, exporting, transporting and possessing the drugs.
Promes currently plays for Spartak Moscow and prosecutors claimed he thinks he is "untouchable" in Russia.
The former Ajax winger did not show up to the trial and made no statement in response to the charges made against him.
Prosecutors, who also wanted to know "how such a successful footballer allowed himself to be drawn so deeply into crime", initially wanted a nine-year sentence.
They alleged that Promes "normalises and almost romanticises the cocaine trade".
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