A Melbourne man has been jailed for 10 years for attempting to possess nearly 300kgs of the drug MDMA smuggled from overseas inside bags of coffee beans.

Dean Panczuk, 35, from Avondale Heights was sentenced in the County of Court Victoria today for his role in attempting to possess 298.3kg of the illicit drug – with an estimated street value of about $14.9m – exported from the Netherlands to Melbourne in 2018.