Kushner’s iPhone Hijacked by the GRU? Dutch Intel Flip Uncovers Hidden Billion-Dollar Money Web

The allegation that Jared Kushner’s iPhone was once quietly commandeered by Russian military intelligence sounds like political fan fiction. Yet a new book excerpt, amplified by a flurry of online reporting, claims that the GRU hacked Kushner’s device and that Dutch military intelligence later flipped a Russian spy, gaining access to whatever Moscow had already pulled from the phone. What they say they found was not evidence of collusion with Russia, but something potentially more combustible: money.

According to this account, Dutch operatives monitoring the compromised iPhone watched as Kushner allegedly moved hundreds of millions of dollars through obscure bank accounts seeded by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The purported slush funds, reportedly discussed at levels reaching into the billions, were said to be routed through financial institutions as far afield as Azerbaijan and Israel’s central bank. If accurate, the claims point to a hidden financial architecture sitting underneath U.S. foreign policy, with private actors allegedly brokering vast sums beyond public view.

Cybersecurity experts who have followed Russian operations caution that the broad contours of the hacking story are plausible, even if key details remain unverified. The GRU has a long record of targeting high-value political figures, and intelligence services routinely exploit whatever access they can gain to an adversary’s devices. What stands out here, analysts say, is less the hack itself than the extraordinary financial activity the Dutch are said to have observed flowing through Kushner’s digital life.

Others in the intelligence community urge skepticism, arguing that a single narrative drawn from a still-unreleased book manuscript should not be treated as established fact. They point out that some specifics, such as the mechanics of accessing an already-hacked phone through a flipped spy, will likely never be officially confirmed or denied. Still, the story is already shifting the debate from familiar questions about Russia to more uncomfortable ones about how foreign money may intersect with American power.

Public reaction has split along familiar partisan lines, but even some national security veterans who served under Republican administrations say the allegations, if borne out, would represent a glaring failure of vetting and oversight. Ethics lawyers note that Kushner’s later $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund already raised conflict-of-interest concerns; the hacked-phone narrative, they argue, turns those worries into potential evidence of a much deeper arrangement. Online, outrage has far outpaced verification, but the pressure for some kind of formal inquiry is unmistakable.