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Charles McGonigal pleads guilty to money laundering, unseals in court and reveals all ties

2023-08-15 20:20:44Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Charles McGonigal pleads guilty to money laundering, unseals in court and
Charles McGonigal


Former head of counterintelligence for the FBI's New York office, Charles McGonigal has pleaded guilty for his role in an illegal scheme aimed at helping sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

McGonigal pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy charges violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and money laundering, as a result of a plea agreement reached with prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.

The disgraced former fbi official was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport in January and charged in two separate cases in New York and Washington, DC, on suspicions he worked with sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and of hiding hundreds of thousands of dollars he had received from a former employee of the Albanian intelligence agency.

McGonigal's lawyer, Seth DuCharme, told a federal judge in Washington that they could resolve the Albania-related case by the end of the month.

This Tuesday McGonigal answered a series of questions about the illegal scheme with Deripaska before Circuit Judge Jennifer Rearden accepted his denuce as guilty.

Considering mental competence before the hearing, McGonigal said:

"The mind is clear. I feel great."

McGonigal, 55, said he was "deeply sorry" for his actions.

"I appear before you in this court to take full responsibility because my actions were never intended to hurt the United States, the FBI, my family and friends," he said.

"I have agreed with another party to gather derogatory open source information about a Russian oligarch named Vladimir Potanin who was a business competitor of Oleg Deripaska," he said.

"I knew that Deripaska was placed on the sanctions list by the U.S. government. "I understood that the information I collected in the end would be used to put Potani on the U.S. sanctions list," McGonigal said.

"I realized that the work I did would give Deripaska some benefit and under U.S. law, I should not offer any service to Deripaska, even indirectly," he continued.

McGonigal could now face a maximum sentence of five years for the charge he pleaded guilty to on Tuesday, Rearden said in court.

He is scheduled to be sentenced on December 14.

His lawyers indicated they would ask the judge to consider a classified offer of information about McGonigal's work for the U.S. government before he can sentence him.


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