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Ex-FBI agent arrested over links to a Russian oligarch

Oleg Deripaska
Oleg Deripaska
TASS

A former FBI employee has been detained due to his associations with a Russian oligarch under US sanctions. Charles McGonigal, 54, has been charged with money laundering and violating US sanctions for trying to help Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska evade penalties.

McGonigal was the last special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the New York Field office. He retired from the FBI in 2018, and was detained on Saturday afternoon after landing at JFK following a vacation to Sri Lanka.


McGonigal had also served as the cyber-counterintelligence section chief in Washington. He was one of the FBI agents involved in the investigation of Donald Trump's presidency.​

McGonigal is charged with four counts and faces a maximum of 80 years in prison.