According to the US Department of Justice indictment, McGonigal received money through an intermediary. Two former career Russian intelligence officers maintained contact with the employee.
McGonigal is accused of disclosing confidential information and illegal trade in services.
American journalists assess this scandal as the largest since the betrayal of FBI employee Robert Hansen, who collaborated with Soviet and Russian intelligence for many years.
. After leaving the FBI and after the American intelligence service had questions for him, McGonigal was hired job co-owner of Capital Group Vladislav Doroninwho appointed him to the position of vice president of security for the Aman hotel chain.
Doronin, the son of a Soviet military intelligence officer and himself closely associated with it since Soviet times, fired the old security officer without explanation and, despite the warnings of the personnel department, hired McGonigal, which caused outrage among company employees. In an American court, details of the McGonigal-Doronin connection are likely to emerge.
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