Swiss Bank Leak Implicates Jordan’s King, Late Omani Ruler, Mubarak’s Sons

Jordan’s Royal Hashemite Court denied wrongdoing Monday after an investigation by nearly 50 news outlets across the world revealed that “the king and queen of Jordan had secret Swiss bank accounts worth hundreds of millions of dollars.” Similar reports have been circulating for years. The palace called the reports “inaccurate and exaggerated” and “old and misleading” and said they were motivated by an intent to defame the country and its king. The “Suisse Secrets” investigation, coordinated by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, is based on leaked data from 18,000 accounts held in Credit Suisse, Switzerland’s second-largest bank. Also named in the report: the late Omani ruler Sultan Qaboos bin Said, whose Swiss bank accounts allegedly contain about $260 million, and the sons of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who were said to have deposited hundreds of millions of dollars in Swiss accounts.