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Jared Kushner has denied a report that Dutch intelligence monitored his phone and saw him access secret bank accounts linked to Middle Eastern governments, calling the claims “outrageous fabrications.”
The allegations appear in a Vanity Fair excerpt published Thursday, Oct. 22, from journalist Matthew Cole’s forthcoming book, “Princes and Thieves.” Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a senior White House adviser in Trump’s first term, rejected every claim.
“None of these allegations ever surfaced, because none of these events ever happened,” Kushner wrote on X, He also called the allegations “completely insane.”
What the book alleges about Jared Kushner
Cole writes that Dutch military intelligence gained access to screenshots of Kushner’s phone through a Russian intelligence server, and later monitored the phone directly, according to DutchNews.
The book alleges that Kushner was linked to an account at First Abu Dhabi Bank that received about $750 million, and to another account holding about $1 billion in Israel.
The Daily Beast reported that the accounts held at least $2 billion in total, with money tied to officials in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
None of these claims has been independently confirmed. The Dutch military intelligence service has not commented publicly.
Kushner’s lawyers and the White House push back
Kushner’s lawyer, Chad Mizelle, said the legal team sent publisher Simon & Schuster a 13-page letter before publication and called the central allegation “categorically false,” according to Newsweek. He said Kushner’s team intends to pursue legal action against those responsible.
The White House also rejected the book. Communications Director Steven Cheung called it “complete fiction.”