Jared Kushner, son-in-law of US President Donald Trump, has denied claims in a forthcoming book that he had access to bank accounts funded by Gulf leaders while serving as a senior White House adviser, calling them "outrageous fabrications", NDTV reported.
The claims appear in an excerpt published by Vanity Fair from journalist Matthew Cole's book, Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed's Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East. None of the allegations has been established as a finding of wrongdoing.
What the book alleges
According to the excerpt, Dutch intelligence officers secretly monitored Kushner's iPhone during Trump's first term and saw him access a bank account linked to the UAE.
The book claims nearly $750 million from a bank in Azerbaijan was paid into an account at First Abu Dhabi Bank held by the Watani Al Emarat Foundation, a UAE government-funded charity. It says Kushner was a signatory on the account but not its owner.
It further alleges that UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman planned the accounts as a fund to support the Trump administration's foreign policy goals, and later put at least $2 billion into two accounts for Kushner. A separate $1 billion transfer for his personal benefit is also alleged, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said to have encouraged that the money be kept in Israel.
Kushner's denial
Kushner said on X that the allegations were "completely insane and never happened". He said the author had offered no bank statements, transfer records, account numbers or dates, and that he had given more than 30 hours of testimony to congressional and special counsel investigations in which none of these claims came up.
His lawyer, Chad Mizelle, said: "There are no bank accounts. They don't exist." Asked on X whether Kushner would sue, he replied: "All options are on the table."
Kushner, 45, currently works alongside special envoy Steve Witkoff on Trump's peace efforts.