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The file on the former FBI agent: Who is the Albanian businessman and politician who asked to investigate a conspiracy to kill him

Politiko 2023-01-24 17:01:42

The file on the former FBI agent: Who is the Albanian businessman and politician

The arrest of a former senior FBI official in the United States of America, Charles McGonigal, has stirred the 'waters' in Albania.

It turns out that the senior FBI official has visited Tirana repeatedly, met with the Albanian prime minister, with a politician in Kosovo and two politicians in Bosnia, received at least 225 thousand dollars from an Albanian resident in New Jersey, who secured this money and more through a network of companies.

In the indictment in DC, McGonigal is accused of traveling with expenses covered by two Albanians. The first is referred to in the indictment as Person A, a naturalized American Albanian residing in New Jersey, who is noted to have been an employee of the Albanian secret services decades ago.

According to the indictment, the FBI official traveled to Albania several times and met with Rama on some of these visits. 

Person B is described as an informal adviser to Prime Minister Edi Rama, who had an official government email address while being employed by a Chinese energy conglomerate. During this trip, McGonigal is reported to have met with another person described as an " Albanian businessman and politician, who asked McGonigal to investigate an attempted murder against him.

"On September 7, 2017, he traveled by plane with person A from the USA to Albania, where during the following days they met with person B and other foreign citizens.

Neither McGonigal nor the FBI paid for McGonigal's housing during the time he was in Albania ," the indictment reads, points 21-23.

The file on the former FBI agent: Who is the Albanian businessman and politician

One of the FBI's top officials, McGonigal, faces two charges, one in New York and one in Washington, D.C., the first of which is accused of helping Oleg Deripaska, a sanctioned Russian oligarch, to remove him from list of businessmen sanctioned by the United States government.

 

 

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