The agent said he was “deeply remorseful” and took “full responsibility and never intended to harm the United States, the FBI, or his family.”
Charles McGonigal, the former head of the FBI’s counterintelligence department in New York, says he worked for sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. On Tuesday, August 15, the AP report.
Charles McGonigal, who served 22 years with the FBI and retired in 2018, reportedly pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and money laundering.
In particular, he admitted that he gave information to Deripaska about his rival Vladimir Potanin and received money for it.
“Yes, he received $17,500 that was laundered from Gazprombank in Russia to Cyprus to the company’s bank account in New Jersey and then to McGonigal’s private account,” the journalists said.
Speaking before a federal judge in New York, Charles McGonigal, 55, said he deeply regrets what he did in 2021 for billionaire Deripaska.
McGonigal could now face up to five years in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for December 14th.
He was arrested in January at John F. Kennedy International Airport and charged in two indictments in New York and Washington for allegedly working with sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and hiding hundreds of thousands of dollars he received from a former Albanian intelligence officer. .
Deripaska has been under US sanctions since 2018 for reasons related to Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
The State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine established that a Ukrainian enterprise owned by Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska supplied parts for rocket science to the Russian Federation.
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