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According to Cole, Dutch intelligence services captured and flipped a Russian hacker operating for the GRU (Russia's foreign military intelligence agency) in late 2017. By the end of the year, the operative had given them access to a GRU server containing screenshots of Kushner's iPhone X, and the Dutch spies were able to reverse-engineer the original method the GRU used to penetrate the phone's then-state-of-the-art security. This gave them access to a continual image feed (albeit without audio) of the phone's screen. In early 2018, Dutch intelligence personnel began monitoring Kushner's phone and identified him logging into a Dubai-based bank account that had received around $750 million. This is the Alpha account. According to Cole, the Alpha account belonged to the United Arab Emirates-based (and government-funded) Watani Al Emarat Foundation, and was held at the First Abu Dhabi Bank. That bank is, in turn, chaired by the brother of UAE leader Mohamed bin Zayed (MBZ).