The FBI agent’s confessions confuse the US.
In a written statement from the US Attorney General’s Office for the Southern District of New York, “Former Special Agent in Charge of the New York FBI Counterintelligence Division pleaded guilty to conspiring to evade sanctions USA to Russia”. expression was used.
District Attorney Damian Williams said: “After serving as a senior FBI official overseeing and participating in investigations of Russian oligarchs, Charles McGonigal has now admitted that he agreed to evade US sanctions by providing services to one of those oligarchs. , Oleg Deripaska. This Office will continue to hold those who violate US sanctions accountable for their own financial interests.” he performed the assessment of it.
Matthew G. Olsen, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Department of Homeland Security, also noted that McGonigal “by his own admission, had betrayed his oath and actively concealed his illegal activity at the suggestion of a sanctioned Russian oligarch.”
The former FBI agent, whose sentence will be determined on December 14, faces a separate trial for collecting undeclared payments from a former Albanian intelligence officer while he was active.
The maximum possible punishment for FBI agents is set by the United States Congress.
HE WAS ARRESTED ON JANUARY 24
The US Department of Justice announced on January 24 that Charles McGonigal, a former senior FBI employee, was arrested for helping a Russian oligarch circumvent US sanctions.
As part of the investigation, along with McGonigal, who was accused of aiding Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, Sergey Shestakov, a former Russian diplomat who served since the former Soviet era, and later a US citizen court interpreter, was also detained.
McGonial and Shestakov were claimed to have been accused of aiding Deripaska, who was sanctioned by the United States in 2018 for helping Russia annex Crimea.
In addition to the US fines, Deripaska was also charged in September 2022 with attempts to directly violate US sanctions.
McGonigal worked for two years as a Special Agent in the FBI’s Counter-Intelligence Agency until his retirement in 2018.