A Polish truck driver has been sentenced to 13 and a half years in a UK prison after border officers discovered roughly 91 kilograms of cocaine hidden inside a truck that was officially carrying a shipment of Kim Kardashian’s SKIMS clothing. Jakub Jan Konkol, 40, was stopped by UK Border Force officers at the Port of Harwich in Essex on September 5, 2025. The truck had arrived by ferry from the Netherlands and was listed as carrying 28 pallets of SKIMS underwear and clothing. Officers ran the vehicle through an X-ray machine and found packages of cocaine concealed in compartments built directly into the rear trailer doors.
The intercepted drugs were valued at approximately $9. 4 million. Investigators zeroed in on a 16-minute stop recorded by the truck’s tachograph, a GPS-based tracking device, shortly before Konkol reached the port. That unexplained gap is believed to be the window when the drugs were loaded into the hidden compartments.
Konkol initially denied knowing about the drugs but later pleaded guilty. He told police he was paid around $4,900 by an organized crime group to carry out the job. He was sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court on May 18, 2026, and will be deported after serving his sentence. SKIMS released a statement saying the company had no knowledge of the criminal activity, no connection to the driver, and no link to the smuggling operation.
Paul Orchard, operations manager for the National Crime Agency, confirmed the shipment itself was legitimate and that neither the exporter nor the importer was accused of wrongdoing. On paper, the case is closed. The official position is that a single driver acted alone and the brand is clean. But the circumstances have drawn attention because of the wider history surrounding the Kardashian family, from a decade-old fraud lawsuit to an FBI interview involving a fugitive billionaire and bags of cash.
Years before SKIMS existed, Kim Kardashian worked as a stylist and closet organizer for celebrities, including R&B singer Brandy Norwood. According to court records, between 2006 and 2007, Kim allegedly passed the credit card details of Brandy’s mother, Sonja Norwood, to her siblings, Khloe, Kourtney, and Robert Jr. The family then used those cards to make purchases at their own clothing stores, Dash and Smooch. In 2008, Sonja Norwood filed a lawsuit over the unauthorized charges.
The reported figure at the time was around $120,000. But in December 2025, Sonja, now 75, filed a court declaration in support of a separate case brought by her son, Ray J, against Kim and Kris Jenner. In that declaration, she stated the actual total of unauthorized charges was closer to $850,000. Ray J has spoken publicly about the matter, saying the Kardashians used the credit cards to buy themselves clothes and shoes and that it destroyed his relationship with the family.
The Kardashians called the claims meritless, saying Kim and Khloe were authorized employees who never used the cards without permission. The case was settled quietly out of court with no public number and no admission of wrongdoing. The story takes a more serious turn with a name that connects directly to federal investigators: Jho Low, the Malaysian billionaire who became an international fugitive. In 2009, Kim Kardashian met Low in Las Vegas.
Low, known for extravagant parties and generous spending on celebrities, paid Kim $50,000 to appear at his birthday party. Later that year, she joined Low and two film producers in a private baccarat room at a Las Vegas casino. They played until five in the morning. Kim reportedly wanted to leave, but a friend told her to stay because Low was known for giving away large sums late in the night.
She stayed and called out bets. Low won big and handed Kim casino chips worth over $350,000. She took the chips to the cashier and received $250,000 in a trash bag full of $100 bills, which she placed in her carry-on luggage and flew back to Los Angeles. She collected an additional $100,000 on a separate trip, also in a trash bag.
Low also gave Kim $100,000 specifically for fireworks at her 2011 wedding to Kris Humphries, plus another $35,000 in cash with no clear purpose. By 2019, the context had shifted dramatically. Low had been accused by US prosecutors of embezzling $4. 5 billion from 1MDB, a Malaysian government investment fund.
The FBI questioned Kim about her relationship with Low in February of that year. She told agents she had met Low about six times and confirmed receiving the chips and the cash. She was not arrested and was not charged. According to the KL High Court, $2.
4 million had moved from 1MDB accounts into the bank accounts of Kim Kardashian and musician Pharrell Williams through Low’s shell company, Good Star Limited. Leonardo DiCaprio was also questioned by the FBI about his connection to Low, but the story never gained the same traction in mainstream coverage. Around the same period, Kris Jenner co-founded the California Community Church in 2009. Described as a faith-based organization, the church operates as a registered non-profit charity.
Members are required to pay $1,000 a month and donate 10% of their income. Because the church is a registered charity, the Kardashian family receives tax deductions for donations made to it, and the money ultimately goes to a church founded by their own mother. The name Lou Taylor has also surfaced in connection with the family’s financial circle. Taylor is the business manager who oversaw Britney Spears’ finances during her conservatorship and was accused of moving hundreds of millions of dollars out of her accounts.
Some reports linked an associate allegedly involved in that scheme to the Kardashian family. None of these allegations have resulted in convictions. In October 2025, the Kardashian family filed a defamation lawsuit against Ray J after he publicly claimed they were under federal investigation. Around the same time, Kanye West was making far more serious accusations publicly.
On social media and in interviews, West accused the Kardashian family of trading in humans and compared their actions to Jeffrey Epstein’s network. “The Carters and the Kardashians are basically the same, except the Kardashians are doing what Epstein did,” West said in a widely circulated quote. The Kardashians did not sue West. No lawsuit was filed, no cease and desist letter was issued.
Legal experts have noted that suing West would require responding to his specific claims in court under oath, something the family may wish to avoid. Comedian Katt Williams also made indirect remarks in 2024 on Club Shay Shay, suggesting that men who get close to Kim Kardashian either disappear or suffer very public breakdowns afterward. He did not name her directly, but the implication was widely understood. None of these connections prove that Kim Kardashian or her family had any involvement in the drug shipment.
The official finding remains that the driver acted alone, the SKIMS shipment was legitimate, and no one connected to the brand has been accused of wrongdoing. But the pattern of unanswered questions, from the credit card lawsuit to the FBI interview to the silence over West’s accusation, continues to generate speculation far beyond the story of one truck driver.
