The former FBI official was sentenced to 2 years in prison for accepting bribes
| The former official of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was sentenced to more than two years in prison for the crime of concealing the receipt of $225,000 from an Albanian intelligence agent. |
report Mehr News Agency, citing Reuters, the US Department of Justice announced that Charles McGonigal, a former high-ranking official of the FBI, was found guilty of 225 thousand dollars from one of the officers of the intelligence of Albania has been sentenced to 28 months in prison.
McGonigal, 55 years old, was accused of concealing the receipt of the said amount while overseeing anti-espionage and related activities. He was found guilty by national security as a senior agent of the FBI office in New York between 2017 and 2019.
He was previously accused of collaborating with Oleg Dripaska, the Russian oligarch under US sanctions was sentenced to more than 4 years in prison. America has named Deripaska as a “disciple” of Vladimir Putin, the Russian President.
According to the announcement of the US Department of Justice, McGonigal had hidden from the FBI receiving money from the Albanian official and also accompanying him on foreign trips for business purposes.
