Former Belgium international Radja Nainggolan has been arrested in Belgium on international drug trafficking charges.
The 36-year-old former Inter and Roma midfielder was arrested on Monday morning after 30 raids were carried out in Antwerp and Brussels in Belgium.
According to a statement issued by the Brussels Prosecutor’s Office, quoted via Sky Sport Italia, Nainggolan is one of several suspects in an operation that concerns the alleged importation of cocaine from South America to Europe through the port of Antwerp.
Nainggolan spent over 15 years of his career playing in Italy, beginning as a youth player at Piacenza in 2005.
He made his senior debut the following year before going on to join Cagliari in 2010.
He is remembered for his time with Roma, where he scored 28 Serie A goals from 138 league outings between 2014 and 2018.
He would spend the following three years at on Inter but spent two of those seasons back on loan with Cagliari.
He only recently returned to Belgium to play for second division side KSC Lokeren-Temse, where he made his debut on Friday, scoring directly from a corner in a 1-0 win over Koninklijke Lierse.
He earned his first senior cap with Belgium on 29 May 2009, against Chile in the Kirin Cup and scored his first goal for the Red Devils on 5 March 2014, in a 2–2 friendly draw with Côte d’Ivoire.
On 13 May 2014, he was selected in a standby list for the 2014 FIFA World Cup but did not make the final cut.
