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Anonymous ID: 67ee72 Jan. 24, 2023, 5:17 p.m. No.18219128   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9131 >>9142 >>9350 >>9387 >>9471 >>9537

>>18219103

Sergey Shestakov and FBI official Charles McGonigal were arrested

and charged yesterday with helping Oleg Deripaska evade sanctions, and taking money to investigate one of his rivals, otherwise known as the Biden Crime Family. (see attached files)

 

Former FBI agent arrested over ties to Russian tycoon

The accused was allegedly paid by Oleg Deripaska to investigate a rival businessman

Former FBI agent arrested over ties to Russian tycoon.

Former FBI agent Charles McGonigal has been arrested and charged with helping Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska evade US sanctions, and taking money to investigate one of the tycoon’s rivals.

McGonigal, a former counterintelligence agent responsible for investigating Russian “oligarchs,” was arrested in New York on Saturday, the US Department of Justice said in a statement on Monday. McGonigal was detained along with Sergey Shestakov, a former Soviet and Russian diplomat and court interpreter.

McGonigal and Shestakov allegedly provided “services” to Deripaska in 2021, while the latter was under US sanctions. The pair allegedly agreed to investigate a rival Russian businessman in exchange for payments from Deripaska, which they received through shell corporations.

According to court documents, McGonigal earned an initial payment of $51,000 and three monthly payments of $41,000 for working for Deripaska in 2021.

McGonigal and Shestakov also lobbied unsuccessfully to have sanctions against Deripaska lifted in 2019 and when questioned on their relationship with the tycoon, Shestakov made false statements to FBI agents, the Justice Department claimed.

The two men have been charged with conspiring to violate and evade US sanctions, violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), money laundering, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Shestakov faces an additional charge of making false statements.

Deripaska was sanctioned under the IEEPA in 2018. This Cold War-era legislation was invoked by Barack Obama in 2014 to block the property of anyone deemed to be “responsible or complicit in actions or policies that threatened the security, sovereignty or territorial integrity of Ukraine, or who materially assist, sponsor or provide support for individuals or entities engaging in such activities” – giving Washington a wide net to cast in sanctioning Russian targets.

The Russian billionaire and founder of aluminum giant Rusal was indicted in the US in September on sanctions violations, though no attempt has been made to extradite him. Deripaska was charged with hiring a woman to sell his California music studio and of attempting to send his girlfriend to the US to give birth to his child.

According to a separate indictment unsealed by the US Attorney’s Office in Washington on Monday, McGonigal allegedly received $225,000 in cash between 2017 and 2018 from an employee of a foreign intelligence service. According to ABC News, this unnamed spy is described as an Albanian national working for a Chinese energy conglomerate.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/570370-fbi-agent-deripaska-oligarch/

 

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Anonymous ID: 67ee72 Jan. 24, 2023, 5:24 p.m. No.18219170   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9264 >>9350 >>9387 >>9471 >>9537

>>18219103

Today saw Ukraine ousting from power a top President Zelensky adviser, four deputy ministers and five regional governors

 

By James Waterhouse and Phelan Chatterjee

BBC News, Kyiv and London

 

Several senior Ukrainian officials have resigned as President Volodymyr Zelensky begins a shake-up of personnel across his government.

 

A top adviser, four deputy ministers and five regional governors left their posts on Tuesday.

 

Their departures come as Ukraine launches a broad anti-corruption drive.

 

Recently, authorities have seen bribery claims, reports of officials buying food at inflated prices and one figure accused of living a lavish lifestyle.

 

Senior aide Mykhailo Podolyak said Mr Zelensky was responding to a "key public demand" that justice should apply to everyone.

 

The president has already banned state officials from leaving the country unless on authorised business.

 

The first to resign on Tuesday was Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the president's deputy head of office, who oversaw regional policy and had earlier worked on Mr Zelensky's election campaign.

 

After Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine last February he became a frequent spokesperson for the government.

 

He was accused by Ukrainian investigative journalists of using several expensive sports cars throughout the war - though denies any wrongdoing.

 

In a Telegram post, he thanked Mr Zelensky for "the opportunity to do good deeds every day and every minute".

 

Deputy Defence Minister Vyacheslav Shapovalov also resigned, following reports he oversaw the purchase of military food supplies at inflated prices from a relatively unknown firm. The department called this a "technical mistake" and claimed no money had changed hands.

 

The defence minister himself - Oleksii Reznikov - has been under scrutiny for the same reason.

 

A host of other top officials were dismissed on Tuesday, including:

 

Deputy Prosecutor General Oleskiy Symonenko

Deputy Minister for Development of Communities and Territories Ivan Lukerya

Deputy Minister for Development of Communities and Territories Vyacheslav Negoda

Deputy Minister for Social Policy Vitaliy Muzychenko

And the regional governors of Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Sumy and Kherson

 

Ukraine has a history of corruption and in 2021 Transparency International ranked the country at 122 out of 180 countries in its ranking of corrupt states.

 

A crackdown is one of the EU's key demands if the country is to advance its application to join the bloc.

 

In an address on Sunday, Mr Zelensky promised there would be "no return to what used to be in the past, to the way various people close to state institutions" used to live.

 

His comments followed the arrest of Ukraine's Deputy Infrastructure Minister Vasyl Lozinskyi on Saturday on suspicion of accepting a bribe worth over $350,000 (£285,000) over the supply of electricity generators. He has denied the charges.

 

David Arakhamia, the head of Mr Zelensky's Servant of the People party, has said that corrupt officials could face jail.

 

"Officials at all levels have been constantly warned through official and unofficial channels: focus on the war, help the victims, reduce bureaucracy and stop doing dubious business.

 

"Many of them have actually listened, but some, unfortunately, did not," he said in a Telegram statement.

 

"If it doesn't work in a civilised way, it will be done according to the laws of wartime. This applies both to recent purchases of generators and to fresh scandals in the ministry of defence."

 

While there have been anti-corruption reforms in recent years, the stakes are high for Kyiv - which is receiving billions of dollars worth of financial aid from Western allies.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64383388

Anonymous ID: 67ee72 Jan. 24, 2023, 5:32 p.m. No.18219203   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9350 >>9387 >>9471 >>9537

>>18219103

McGonigal's been a busy little worker bee

 

McGonigal triggered the Russiagate hoax against President Donald Trump and knows where all the bodies were buried by both the Biden Crime Family and Clinton Crime Family—in the past, McGonigal also led the cover-up investigation of the 9/11 false flag attack—most critically to notice, McGonigal began his FBI career orchestrating the cover-up investigation of TWA Flight 800, that exploded on 17 July 1996 shortly after taking off from New York City killing all 230 passengers and crew—TWA Flight 800 became the first and only air disaster in American history investigated by the FBI, not the FAA—and was an FBI cover-up confirmed by President Barack Obama pilot Captain Andy Danziger, who mysteriously died in October-2015, just six months after he released his April-2015 bombshell open letter “TWA Flight 800 Was Not Blown Up By A Faulty Fuel Tank; It Was Shot Down. I’ll Always Believe That, And Here’s Why”, wherein he revealed: “The FBI only summarized the interviews in its reports; the witnesses weren't permitted to see what was written or to review the reports, and the NTSB only received summary reports in which all personal information was redacted…And maybe most importantly, the witnesses — there were more than 700 of them — weren't permitted to testify”.

 

https://nypost.com/2023/01/23/charles-mcgonigal-indicted-ex-fbi-head-helped-trigger-russia-probe/

https://www.newsweek.com/who-charles-mcgonigal-fbi-agent-charged-russia-links-1776008

https://www.ae911truth.org/

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/veteran-pilot-andy-danziger-dies-61-article-1.2418426

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/obama-pilot-twa-flight-800-shot-article-1.2186329

Anonymous ID: 67ee72 Jan. 24, 2023, 5:45 p.m. No.18219274   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>18219260

>we give them to both sides

coulda been a good thing, otherwise the lunatic fringe neocon war mongers would have used more of them all around the world.