Charles McGonigal, the former top FBI counterintelligence official in New York, pleaded guilty to a federal charge of conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions by taking money from Oleg Deripaska, a sanctioned Russian oligarch and ally of Vladimir Putin. He admitted to laundering $17,500 from Gazprom Bank in Russia to his private account and is facing up to five years in prison when he is sentenced on August 3.
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Former FBI counterintelligence official Charles McGonigal and former Russian diplomat Sergey Shestakov have been indicted on charges of violating U.S. sanctions and money laundering. The two are accused of working for Russian energy magnate Oleg Deripaska to investigate a rival Russian oligarch in 2021 and of failing to report their contacts with foreign officials to the FBI. If convicted, they face up to 20 years in prison.