He insisted that Kroll had miscalculated and included assets he never owned, like a villa in Dubai, when it tallied his liability at $30.5 million.
The S.E.C. had alleged that Citi had defrauded investors by selling them collateralized debt obligations that included assets the bank handpicked and then bet against.
In its calculation of the king's personal assets, Forbes included assets belonging to the Crown Property Bureau that are held in trust for the nation and not at the king's personal disposal.
When Neil Barofsky, the inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, totaled up all possible federal guarantees at $23.7 trillion recently, he included assets like Treasury bills in money market funds and mortgages guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Some company shares, corporate bonds and residential mortgages have been added to the list, which previously only included assets such as government bonds.
(The genealogy of Close5 is a little messy: In 2004, eBay acquired Dutch online sales app Marktplaats, which launched a service called Close5 in October 2015. It included assets from Las Vegas startup Rumgr, which eBay acquired in 2014).
