A retired FBI official was charged with working for the Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska in violation of U.S. sanctions and with taking $225,000 in cash from an unidentified employee of a foreign intelligence service.
Charles McGonigal, a former special agent in charge of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division in New York, was charged with money laundering and violating U.S. sanctions against Russia, in an indictment unsealed Monday in New York. He was charged separately with falsification of records and making false statements, in a nine-count indictment unsealed in Washington.
McGonigal, 54, was arrested Saturday evening. Prosecutors claim he agreed to investigate a Russian rival of Deripaska in exchange for concealed payments. He’s expected to appear before a judge in Manhattan federal court on Monday afternoon. A lawyer for McGonigal didn’t immediately respond to phone and email messages seeking comment on the charges.
