Jinshuo Dong and Jingshu Wong have been jailed
Two Leeds students recruited others to take in "parcels" containing 1.5kg of cannabis in a sophisticated operation that unravelled after border force officials became suspicious.
The court heard the parcels contained on average 1.5kg of the drug each. Mr Newman said: "The prosecution suggest Mr Dong and Mr Wong played an instrumental and significant part in the conspiracy both in terms of recruiting students and the subsequent collection of the parcels prior to distribution."
Mr Newman said: "On second of May this year, police went to Mr Dong's home at East Parade and present at the address were the defendants and another group of individuals not involved in the investigation. They were arrested and their mobile phones were seized and an amount of cannabis and a jacket similar to that he was seen wearing on CCTV."
Mr Hart said Dong was "lonely" and was "desperate to make friends" and found himself involved with gambling. He said: "He was offered an opportunity to make a little money."
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