The homes include a house in Ascot, one of England’s most expensive towns multimillion-dollar apartments in central London and three luxury apartments in a complex in Washington, D.C., with panoramic views of the Potomac River.Īlso included are three adjoining beachfront homes under reconstruction at Point Dume, a posh enclave near Los Angeles. Their value totals more than $106 million. Jordan would track every last dinar that citizens had hidden in tax havens, the prime minister said No offshore wealth was beyond scrutiny.Ī trove of leaked documents obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists shows that the country’s long-ruling monarch, King Abdullah II, has secretly owned 14 luxury homes in the United Kingdom and the United States, purchased between 20 through front companies registered in tax havens. Then-Prime Minister Omar al-Razzaz said the crackdown was especially needed to respond to COVID-19’s impact on the state’s finances. Masked police broke up the demonstrations and jailed critics of the country’s leaders.įinally, in a bid to defuse the crisis, Jordanian authorities in June 2020 trumpeted a crackdown on hidden wealth, designed to help stanch the flow of an estimated $800 million a year out of the country. Jordanian protesters took to the streets – again – demanding an end to corruption and poverty in the aid-dependent Middle Eastern monarchy.
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