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With the US case closed and McGonigal found guilty, it remains to be seen what SPAK's next step will be in this case!
The former FBI agent, Charles McGonigal, was sentenced by the Washington federal court to 2.4 years in prison for the Albanian file.
Charles McGonigal was sentenced to 28 months in prison "for serious breach of public trust", related to the 225 thousand dollars he received from the Albanian-American Agron Nezaj and the non-declaration of contacts with Albanian officials, including Prime Minister Edi Rama.
According to prosecutors in the case, McGonigal not only failed to declare the money, but advanced Mr. Nezaj's business interests and lied to the FBI about their joint activities, thereby concealing the fact that he had conflicts of interest and private financial interests.
"This essentially constitutes corruption that undermines transparency and trust in the integrity of the Executive Branch of the government. The defendant had sworn to investigate and prevent crimes against the United States, not to commit them ," the document states.
In September, McGonigal pleaded guilty in federal court in Washington to all charges related to Albania, including unreported contacts with Albania's prime minister, Edi Rama, and the prime minister's unofficial adviser, Dorian Ducka.
The plea came as part of a deal between prosecutors and McGonigal's attorneys. In exchange for pleading guilty to one of the counts of the indictment, that of hiding material evidence, the prosecutors waived the other eight counts.
With the US case closed and McGonigal found guilty, it remains to be seen what SPAK's next step will be in this case! The Special Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation into the McGonigal case, where it has called two of the characters involved in this affair, Agron Neza and Dorian Dučka, to testify. As for Prime Minister Rama, it is not yet known whether he has been summoned to SPAK for this case.
While we remember that in December, a former senior FBI agent was sentenced to more than four years in prison for helping a Russian oligarch who wanted to be removed from the US sanctions list.
McGonigal was the special agent in charge of the FBI's counterintelligence division in New York before retiring in 2018, tasked with investigating Russian oligarchs.
Prosecutors said at the time that he and former Russian diplomat Sergey Shestakov violated US sanctions by agreeing to provide services to Russian billionaire and industrialist Oleg Deripaska. The US sanctioned Deripaska in 2018 after accusing him and several other Russian oligarchs and officials of "malicious activity around the globe"./ Pamphlet
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