NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former top FBI official was charged with violating U.S. sanctions on Russia by receiving concealed payments from oligarch Oleg Deripaska, prosecutors said on Monday.
Charles McGonical, who led the agency’s counterintelligence division in New York, was arrested on Saturday on charges he agreed to investigate a rival oligarch in return for the payments from Deripaska after he was sanctioned in 2018, according to federal prosecutors in Manhattan.
(Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York)
