WASHINGTON D.C (VINnews) — Jared Kushner strongly rejected allegations in a newly published Vanity Fair excerpt that Dutch intelligence monitored his phone and observed him accessing secret foreign bank accounts during the first Trump administration, calling the claims “completely insane” and “categorically false.”

The excerpt, drawn from investigative journalist Matthew Cole’s forthcoming book “Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East,” alleges that Russian military intelligence first compromised Kushner’s iPhone. Dutch intelligence officials later gained access through the same vulnerability, according to the reporting, and monitored activity on the device beginning in early 2018.

Cole writes that the surveillance showed Kushner logging into a United Arab Emirates-linked account at First Abu Dhabi Bank that had received roughly $750 million, with funds reportedly routed through a bank in Azerbaijan. The book further claims that rulers in Saudi Arabia and the UAE placed at least $2 billion into accounts connected to Kushner, including a separate arrangement of about $1 billion linked to Israel’s central bank. A source told the author that money from the Dubai account was transferred to individuals described as a warlord, a mercenary and a former hit man.

In a statement posted on X, Kushner said the author “failed to provide a single shred of evidence” and noted the absence of bank statements, wire-transfer records, account numbers or transaction dates. He pointed out that he faced extensive media scrutiny, multiple congressional investigations and a special counsel investigation during the period in question, and that he provided more than 30 hours of testimony.

“None of these allegations ever surfaced, because none of these events ever happened,” Kushner wrote. “These are outrageous fabrications being presented as investigative journalism. This is not journalism. It is a mixture of fantasy, fiction, and advocacy.”

His attorney, Chad Mizelle, previously sent a letter to the book’s publisher denying the existence of the accounts and describing the claims as defamatory. The allegations have not been independently verified by other news organizations.

Kushner, the son-in-law of President Donald Trump, served as a senior adviser in the first Trump administration and has continued to play a role in Middle East diplomacy. The claims, if accurate, would raise questions about potential conflicts of interest and disclosure requirements, though Kushner and his legal team maintain that the reported accounts do not exist and that no such activity took place.