Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions

Dutch intelligence secretly gained screenshots of Jared Kushner’s iPhone after recruiting a Russian GRU hacker and used a software exploit to capture his screen activity. Those captures showed Kushner logging into a Dubai bank account that had received hundreds of millions of dollars routed through a bank in Azerbaijan. The surveillance traced roughly $750 million into one UAE-controlled account and, more broadly, at least $2 billion moved into two accounts tied to Kushner, the UAE ruler Mohammed bin Zayed, and initially Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The monitoring also indicated Kushner moved money from the Dubai account to other individuals, including a warlord, a mercenary, and a one-time hit man, and occurred against the backdrop of Kushner seeking “shortcuts” in diplomacy while his family business faced a looming loan on 666 Fifth Avenue.

The primary account, held at First Abu Dhabi Bank and overseen by Tahnoon bin Zayed, was managed under the Watani Al Emarat Foundation, a UAE charity used as a cover for covert military and intelligence expenditures. Kushner was made a signatory on the account, giving him transactional access without technically owning it; multiple senior U.S. officials reported no presidential authorization or congressional oversight for his role. Transfers were obscured through established Azerbaijani dollar-clearing practices. The disclosures portray secret financial arrangements between a senior U.S. adviser and Gulf rulers to fund off-the-books foreign-policy objectives, raising questions about conflicts of interest and undisclosed foreign influence; Kushner’s counsel denies he made formal agreements.