Ex-FBI official who oversaw oligarch investigations charged over 'helping' Russian billionaire
The 54-year-old suspect has also been separately charged with money laundering and violating sanctions on Russia after allegedly receiving concealed payments from oligarch Oleg Deripaska following McGonigal's retirement.
Deripaska, the founder of Russian aluminium company Rusal, was among those added to the US Treasury Department's sanctions list in 2018 for purported ties to the Kremlin and its energy sector in reaction to Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 US election. Both Deripaska and the Kremlin deny any such interference.
McGonigal joined the FBI in 1996 and began working on Russian foreign counterintelligence and organised crime. During his time working in New York, he investigated the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, and the September 11 terror attacks in 2001. Last September, federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged Deripaska and three associates with conspiring to violate US sanctions by plotting to ensure his child was born in the US.
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