UK sentences trucker over multimillion-dollar cocaine found in SKIMS clothing shipment
A Polish truck driver, Jakub Jan Konkel, was sentenced to 13½ years in the UK for smuggling nearly 200 pounds of cocaine—worth about $9.4 million—inside a 28-pallet shipment of Kim Kardashian’s SKIMS clothing from the Netherlands to Essex. Authorities say the drugs were hidden in a back-door compartment and loaded during a 16-minute stop at Hook of Holland; Konkel was paid about $5,243. The UK National Crime Agency stressed that the clothing importers/exporters involved in the shipment were not implicated and the cargo was otherwise legitimate.
