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Published 15:31 12 Aug 2025 BST
Updated 16:06 12 Aug 2025 BST

Ex-Wigan Athletic defender Ronnie Stam — who won the FA Cup with the Latics in 2013 — has been jailed for seven years for drug smuggling.
The court ruled that Stam played a "determining and coordinating role" in the operation to import the drugs.
The drugs were intercepted when they arrived in Rotterdam which led to Stam's arrest in June.
As first reported by De Telegraaf, Stam and his brother must now both pay a €30,000 fine and have around €1.7million in criminal proceeds confiscated.
A judge said: "They were only concerned with making large amounts of money."
Stam played four times during Wigan's 2013 shock FA Cup-winning campaign.
In total, the defender made 73 appearances over three years for the North-West based club.
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