Cocaine worth $9.4M found in shipment of Kim Kardashian SKIMS brand garments
Chicago Tribune • • world
Key Points:
- Jakub Jan Konkel, a 40-year-old truck driver, was sentenced to 13½ years in prison for attempting to smuggle nearly $10 million worth of cocaine into England hidden in a shipment of Kim Kardashian’s SKIMS clothing brand.
- Konkel transported around 200 lbs. of cocaine, packaged in 2.2 lb. units, concealed in a compartment inside the back doors of his customized vehicle from the Netherlands to Essex.
- He was paid $5,243 for the transport and was stopped by border officials at a port northeast of London after arriving on a ferry from the Hook of Holland, where the cargo was X-rayed.
- Authorities believe the drugs were loaded during a brief 16-minute stop not disclosed by Konkel, but the SKIMS brand and associated parties were confirmed to be uninvolved in the drug smuggling, with the shipment otherwise legitimate.
- SKIMS, co-founded by Kim Kardashian in 2019, is valued at around $5 billion, while Kardashian’s personal net worth is estimated at nearly $2 billion.