Formerly its top official FBI accused of violating sanctions against Russia because he is secretly paid by an oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
OUR Charles McGonigal, who led the FBI’s counterintelligence division in New York until his resignation in 2018, was arrested on Saturday. In 2021, he was allegedly investigating another oligarch on behalf of Deripaska, who was sanctioned in 2018.
Prosecutors said McGonigal, 54, also worked for Deripaska in 2019, unsuccessfully trying to get sanctions lifted against him. Deripaska is the founder of the Russian aluminum company Rusal.
McGonigal’s lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment on this information.
McGonigal is due to appear in federal court in Manhattan later today along with Sergei Sestakov, a former Soviet diplomat who later became a US citizen and is now a defendant in the same case.
Deripaska was among about 24 Russian oligarchs and government officials blacklisted by Washington in 2018 over alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.
Reuters
Source: Kathimerini
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