Charles McGonigal, who headed the FBI’s counterintelligence division in New York, is accused of being secretly paid by oligarch Oleg Deripaska
A former top FBI official is accused of violated the sanctions against Russia because he was secretly paid by the oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
Charles McGonigal, who headed the FBI’s counterintelligence division in New York until his retirement in 2018, was arrested on Saturday. He was allegedly investigating another oligarch in 2021, on behalf of Deripaska who was sanctioned in 2018.
Prosecutors said McGonigal, 54, also worked for Deripaska in 2019 in an unsuccessful effort to have sanctions against him lifted. Deripaska is the founder of the Russian aluminum company Rusal.
An attorney for McGonigal did not immediately respond to a request for comment on this information.
McGonigal is scheduled to be arraigned in federal court in Manhattan later today, along with Sergei Sestakov, a former Soviet diplomat who later became a U.S. citizen and is now a defendant in the same case.
Deripaska was among some 24 Russian oligarchs and government officials blacklisted by Washington in 2018 over Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.
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