AMMAN, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Jordan's Royal Hashemite Court on Monday denied reports that King Abdullah II owned Credit Suisse accounts.
The total balance mentioned in several reports is "inaccurate and exaggerated" due to significant duplicative counting, the court said in a statement.
Those reports were published to defame Jordan and the king, the statement added.
The court reiterated that all international assistance was subject to professional audits, and their allocations were fully accounted for by the government and donor entities based on cooperation agreements subject to the highest standards of governance and oversight.
The king's private assets and wealth have always been independent from the treasury and public funds, and they are administered by the Privy Purse, which is a directorate that has been at the court for over 70 years, it added.
Several reports circulating on the Internet said that according to a major data leak from one of Switzerland's largest banks, "the king and queen of Jordan had secret Swiss bank accounts worth hundreds of millions of dollars." ■
