Christopher Golding has been jailed after leading a drug gang in Suffolk and Essex
- Credit: Essex Police
Members of a gang which smuggled cocaine through ports before selling it on dealers across the region have been jailed for a combined total of 40 years.
Christopher Golding headed up the Harlow-based network, which smuggled cocaine in containers through ports before selling it on to gangs supplying west Essex, Hertfordshire, London and Suffolk.
The operation was estimated to have earned them at least £500,000, which was stashed in Bitcoin or laundered through the pub Golding ran as a licensee.
More than £100,000 in cash, assets and weapons - as well as £120,000 worth of cocaine - was later seized, with more money set to be counted by the Proceeds of Crime Act.
Essex drugs gang locked up for combined total of 40 years
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05:00, 23 JAN 2021
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