Dutch intelligence services captured and flipped a Russian hacker operating for the GRU (Russia’s foreign military intelligence agency) in late 2017.
By the end of the year, the operative had given them access to a GRU server containing screenshots of Jared Kushner’s iPhone X,
and the Dutch spies were able to reverse-engineer the original method the GRU used to penetrate the phone’s then-state-of-the-art security.
This gave them access to a continual image feed (albeit without audio) of the phone’s screen.
This roughly overlaps with the timeline during which Kushner was allegedly using a personal cell phone
Instead of a secure government device,
using his private email(allegedly routed to Trump Org servers in 2017)
to conduct official government business, and receiving Top Secret intelligence -- without a permanent security clearance, by the way.
In early 2018, Dutch intelligence personnel began monitoring Kushner’s phone
and identified him logging into a Dubai-based bank account that had received around $750 million.
This is the Alpha account.
According to Cole, the Alpha account belonged to the United Arab Emirates-based (and government-funded) Watani Al Emarat Foundation,
and was held at the First Abu Dhabi Bank.
That bank is, in turn, chaired by the brother of UAE leader Mohamed bin Zayed (MBZ).
Cole reported Kushner and MBZ partly managed the account as a slush fund,
or what a source described to him as “a shared pool of money for off-the-books diplomatic objectives,”
and that MBZ and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) contributed the money.
The royals had originally discussed putting more than $10 billion into a broader fund
that could have helped pay for Trump’s border wall “in an effort to secure a second term in the White House,” Cole wrote,
But that plan fizzled out, so they settled on lesser Kushner-facilitated schemes.
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Cole also learned of another account,
which unlike Alpha may not have been known to the Dutch.
MBZ allegedly transferred about
$1 billion to a separate Israeli Central Bank account --Beta,
One source characterized Beta as an allocation “for Kushner’s personal benefit.”
Here emerges one of the most bizarre details:
According to Cole, Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu recommended Kushner use the Israeli Central Bank in the first place.
This situation ended up with Kushner being required to notify Netanyahu before using the Beta account for any transfers or transactions.
If true, that effectively means the leader of a foreign country had oversight of a billion dollars meant for Kushner.
Kushner allegedly sent notices of any account activity to Netanyahu via the U.S. ambassador to Israel, David M. Friedman.