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Leaked intelligence files expose Jared Kushner's multi-billion dollar financial entanglements with Gulf monarchs and Israeli leadership —— Investigative journalist Matthew Cole's upcoming book, Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed's Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East, reveals that Dutch intelligence covertly monitored Jared Kushner’s iPhone in 2018 and uncovered secret bank accounts funded by the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. According to the disclosures, as reported by Vanity Fair, the financial channels were established to bankroll backchannel diplomacy, drive regional normalization with Israel, and bypass official foreign policy channels while Kushner served as a senior White House adviser. The explosive findings detail elaborate shadow financial networks that utilized Azerbaijani banks to launder and obscure massive capital transfers totaling billions of dollars from Gulf royals. Funds deposited into accounts such as First Abu Dhabi Bank and Israel's Central Bank—managed under the oversight of regional figures including Emirati and Israeli leadership—provided Kushner with off-the-books resources to orchestrate covert geopolitical objectives. These objectives included efforts to dismantle regional resistance frameworks, undermine the Iran nuclear deal, and force capitulation on Palestinian sovereignty. The covert financial arrangement highlights how high-level US diplomacy in the region operated through opaque monarchical financing, raising serious questions regarding federal ethics disclosures and potential violations of foreign agent laws. The arrangement underscores the deeply transactional nature of Washington's regional alignment with Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi.