
The session of the former FBI official, Charles McGonigal, who pleaded not guilty to charges that he received money from a former employee of the Albanian intelligence services and to non-reporting of contacts and liaisons and officials of other states.
As it is pointed out in the indictment, he has had numerous contacts, among others, with businessmen, former officials and Albanian officials. McGonigal attended the hearing virtually, at the end of which it was agreed that he would be tried on bail and that the next hearing would be held at a later date. The focus this time was mostly on the technical details of the process.
McGonigal pleaded not guilty to other charges brought against him in New York, that he violated US sanctions against Russia by working for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. The court decided to release him against payment, while the judicial process will take place. According to the indictment, the former FBI official turns out to have received an amount of 225 thousand dollars from the Albanian-American Agron Neza.
It was McGonigal himself who, in August and then September of 2017, had asked Neza if he could provide him with a sum of money, which the latter gave him over the course of the autumn of that year in three different episodes. According to the indictment, meanwhile, there is another person who should be interrogated for this case, and he is Dorian Ducka, former deputy minister for energy and then an independent consultant.