A man has been imprisoned for a very long time for sneaking Class A medications into the UK, including a heap that was concealed inside a shipment of youngsters' toys. 

Chris Michaelides, 52, was condemned in Woolwich Crown Court on Friday in the wake of confessing to a progression of violations, the Metropolitan Police said. 

Michaelides, of Chigwell, Essex, was captured following an interagency activity that destroyed a scrambled correspondences framework. 

Messages from Michaelides showed that he was in touch with others situated in the UK, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic and that he was associated with bringing in cocaine. 

The Met said their discussions demonstrated that the criminal undertakings had been continuing for around six years. 

Captured 

A proper occupation included a truck conveying kids' play blocks that was likewise stacked with 50kg of high-immaculateness cocaine for import into the UK and ensuing appropriation in April 2020. 

The vehicle was captured, so, all in all, the crooks attempted once more, setting up a comparative import, accepted to be 37 kilos of cocaine, in June, police said. 

Michaelides was captured on July 1 and accused of intrigue to avoid the import prohibition on controlled medications and connivance to supply a controlled medication. 

He was additionally accused of ownership of a few illicit things, including a falsely gotten identification and a disallowed weapon. 

Analyst Inspector Lee Byne of Specialist Crime said: 

Analyst Inspector Lee Byne of Specialist Crime expressed profound gratitude: 'to incredible cooperation, the proof we had the option to assemble against Michaelides was entirely overpowering, to the point that he had no real option except to confess to the charges brought against him. 

Michaelides assumed a vital part in this criminal organization, which had been bringing in huge amounts of class A medications, concealed in honest shipments, including kids' toys, for a long time. 

"The medications that he helped import into the UK during those years without a doubt crushed many lives and networks. 

'The guns and weapons that we found in Michaelides' home by and by exhibit the unquestionable connection among medications and viciousness. 

"This is the reason disturbing all medication supply courses stays vital to our work to handle viciousness in the city of London."