Amman: King Jordan Abdullah II on Monday has denied the inaccuration in the purchase of his luxury house abroad, citing security needs to remain silent about the transaction transactions worth more than $ 100 million.
He said there was no public funds used.
Comments by the royal palace came a day after the International Consortium journalist investigating reported that hundreds of world leaders, strong politicians, billionaires, celebrities, religious leaders and drug dealers have hidden their investments in luxury homes, exclusive beach edge properties, yachts, and other assets for a quarter The last century.
This report is based on an overview of nearly 12 million files obtained from 14 companies located around the world, said the consortium.
This report was nicknamed “Pandora Papers” because the findings described elite transactions previously hidden and corrupt, and how they had used offshore accounts to protect collectively assets worth a collectively worthwhile.
For example, the investigation found advisor helps King Jordan establish at least three dozen Shell companies from 1995 to 2017, helping the king bought 14 houses worth more than $ 106 million in the US and Britain is the property of the $ 23 million California ocean view purchased in 2017 through British Virgin Islands Company.
Advisors were identified as British accountants in Switzerland and lawyers in the British Virgin Islands.
Abdullah denied impantish, quoting security needs to maintain calm transactions and said no public funds were used.
“This property is not published due to security and privacy issues, and not due to confidentiality or effort to hide it, because this report has claimed,” said a royal court statement.
“The steps to keep privacy are very important for the head of a noble position.” This statement describes a consortium report on its real estate portfolio as “striking security violations and threats to the safety of majesty and his family.” The details were a shameful blow to Abdullah, whose government was covered in scandal this year when his stepbrother, the former crown of Hamzah, accused the “ruling system” of corruption and inability.
The king claimed that he was the victim of “evil plot,” put his stepbrother under house arrest and placed two former maids close to the trial.