A former top FBI counterintelligence official has been charged with helping Putin-allied Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska evade sanctions put on him by the U.S. government, JerryDunleavy reports.
Charles McGonigal, a 22-year veteran of the FBI who retired in 2018 as the special agent in charge of the FBI’s counterintelligence division in New York, was charged by the Justice Department with conspiring to violate and violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and with conspiring to commit and committing money laundering as well.While at the FBI, McGonigal had supervised and participated in investigations of Russian oligarchs, including Deripaska.
McGonigal’s apparent co-conspirator, Sergey Shestakov, a former Soviet and Russian diplomat who later became a U.S. citizen and a Russian interpreter for U.S. courts and government offices, was hit with all the same charges as the former FBI official and was also charged with lying to the FBI in November 2021 when he was questioned about his and McGonigal’s relationship with Deripaska’s agent.
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