"A former Russian diplomat linked to a sanctions-evasion scandal involving one of the FBI's top former counter-intelligence agents and a notorious Russian oligarch was sentenced to two months in jail on charges of lying to US law enforcement. Sergei Shestakov's sentencing closes a chapter in a case that both embarrassed the FBI and also shone a new spotlight on Oleg Deripaska, a Kremlin-connected billionaire who has long been on the FBI's radar screen."
"At the time of retirement in 2018, McGonigal was a top official at the FBI's New York offices, overseeing counterintelligence investigations into Russian spies and oligarchs, among other things. At the October 16 hearing, US District Court Judge Jed Rakoff ordered Shestakov to serve two months in jail, two years of supervised release, and to pay a $100 fine -- a sentence lighter than the already lenient request that prosecutors had asked for. His sentence will start in February."
"At the center of the case are conversations that Shestakov had with Yevgeny Fokin, also a former Russian diplomat whom Shestakov called an old friend from decades back. Fokin, a top executive with Deripaska's main holding company En+, was put under FBI surveillance beginning in July 2019, according to court records, and his electronic devices seized and searched as he"
Sergei Shestakov, a 71-year-old former Russian diplomat and naturalized U.S. citizen who worked as an authorized federal court interpreter, was sentenced to two months in jail for lying to U.S. law enforcement. U.S. prosecutors asserted that Shestakov understood lying to FBI agents probing former FBI official Charles McGonigal was a crime. Judge Jed Rakoff imposed two months' imprisonment, two years of supervised release, and a $100 fine, with the term beginning in February. Shestakov had exchanged conversations with Yevgeny Fokin, a former diplomat and En+ executive who was placed under FBI surveillance and had devices seized in July 2019.
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