The FBI tried to recruit Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian billionaire, as an informant around 2014, hoping he might shed light on organized crime and, later, possible interference in the presidential election. A decade later, Deripaska may have turned the tables on the FBI: Prosecutors say the oligarch recruited one of the bureau’s top spy catchers, just as he entered retirement, to carry out work that they say violated U.S. sanctions. The charges unsealed this week against Charles McGonigal — who r
Charles McGonigal, left, leaves Federal District Court in Manhattan, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023.
Deripaska, an aluminum magnate, had been on the radar of U.S. authorities for years and remains under sanctions. He was known to be an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Treasury Department had reported he had ties to organized crime. In recent months, though, federal prosecutors in New York have charged several of those representatives in indictments that accuse them of a range of sanctions violations.
He had worked in the past with the U.S. government, including on a failed effort to rescue an FBI agent who had been captured in Iran, for which Deripaska spent as much as $25 million of his own money. According to the indictment, in 2018, McGonigal reviewed a “then-classified list of oligarchs with close ties to the Kremlin” who were being considered for sanctions.
Deripaska denied the allegations, which his allies have said were punishment for refusing to cooperate with U.S. authorities.
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