Vanity Fair reported on October 23, 2026 that a flipped Russian hacker observed Jared Kushner logging into an Abu Dhabi bank account holding more than $700 million in transfers routed through an Azerbaijani bank from Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Kushner's lawyers dispute parts of the account. The discussion treats the particulars as unconfirmed while accepting the broad contours of a Kushner-MBZ-MBS push to remake the Middle East. A later account holds that Dutch intelligence hacked Kushner's phone after flipping a Russian officer who sold them the data. The administration's Middle East war remains a target of criticism.