Charles McGonigal, once special agent in charge of FBI N.Y.'s Counterintelligence Division, was charged with violating U.S. sanctions, among other accusations.
McGonigal, 54, of New York City, and Shestakov, 69, of Morris, Connecticut,"both previously worked with Deripaska to attempt to have his sanctions removed, and, as public servants, they should have known better," U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams said in a statement."This Office will continue to prosecute those who violate U.S. sanctions enacted in response to Russian belligerence in Ukraine in order to line their own pockets.
Charles McGonigal, the former head of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York office, leaves Manhattan Federal Court on January 23, 2023 in New York City. It was then-President Barack Obama who in 2014 issued Executive Order 13660, which declared a national emergency with respect toOn April 6, 2018, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Deripaska as a Specially Designated National , sanctioning him for acting on behalf of a senior official of the Russian Federation’s government and for operating in the Russian energy sector.
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