Charles McGonigal is accused of investigating a rival oligarch in return for secret payments from an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A FORMER TOP FBI agent was charged today with violating US sanctions on Russia by working for indicted Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska.
The aluminum billionaire was then indicted in September last year over a scheme to obtain US citizenship for his two children in violation of the sanctions. Prosecutors say that in 2021 he and Sergey Shestakov, a 69-year-old former Soviet and Russian diplomat, “conspired to provide services to Deripaska,” violating the sanctions.
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