![]() In October 2011, she was accused of plagiarizing material on Alexander Pushkin from a book by Kremlin spin doctor Oleg Matveychev. ![]() Ĭhapman wrote a column for Komsomolskaya Pravda. agent contacted her using a code that only Poteyev and her personal handler would have known. authorities with the information that led to her arrest in 2010 she also alleged that she was arrested shortly after an undercover U.S. Chapman testified that only Poteyev could have provided the U.S. Alexander Poteyev, an ex-KGB soldier, which took place in Moscow in May and June 2011. ![]() Ĭhapman testified to the closed trial in absentia of Col. In June 2011, Chapman was appointed as editor of Venture Business News magazine, according to Bloomberg News. On 21 January 2011, Chapman began hosting a weekly TV show in Russia called Secrets of the World for REN TV. ![]() According to the organization, she would "be engaged in educating young people". In late December 2010, Chapman was appointed to the public council of Young Guard of United Russia. In 2010 she was deported to Russia as part of a prisoner exchange between the United States and Russia. She pleaded guilty to conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. Īfter Anna was arrested in New York on charges of spying, Alex hired media publicist Max Clifford, and sold her story to The Daily Telegraph. She later described her time in the United States with the Charles Dickens quote, "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times". Around this time, she had allegedly attempted to purchase ecstasy tablets. Ĭhapman was reportedly in a relationship with Michel Bittan, a divorced Israeli-Moroccan restaurant owner, while she was living in New York. But suddenly in 2009, she had as many as 50 employees and a successful business. Her husband Alex stated that Anna told him the enterprise was continually in debt for the first couple of years. Her LinkedIn social networking site profile identified her as CEO of PropertyFinder LLC, a website selling real estate internationally. In 2009, Chapman moved to New York, taking up residence at 20 Exchange Place, one block from Wall Street in Manhattan. In March 2018, it was reported that Alex Chapman had died in May 2015, aged 36, from a drug overdose. In 2003 or 2004, Anna Chapman moved to London where she worked at NetJets, Barclays. They married shortly thereafter in Moscow, and she gained British citizenship, in addition to her native Russian one, and a British passport. London: 2001–2006 Īnna Kushchenko met Alex Chapman at a London Docklands rave party in 2001. According to other sources, she got her degree from Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. Īccording to her ex-husband, Anna earned a master's degree in economics with first class honours from Moscow State University. Her father, Vasily Kushchenko, was reportedly a senior KGB official who once served as the Russian ambassador to Kenya, and currently occupies a senior position at the ministry known by its Russian initials MID (foreign affairs). Since her return to Russia, Chapman has worked in a variety of fields, including for the government as head of a youth council, a catwalk model in Russian fashion shows, and running a television series.Ĭhapman was born Anna Vasilyevna Kushchenko (Russian: А́нна Васи́льевна Кущенко) in Kharkiv on 23 February 1982. Learning that Chapman had wanted to return to the United Kingdom, the UK government revoked her British citizenship and excluded her from the country. She and the other Russians were deported to Russia on 8 July 2010, as part of the 2010 Russia–U.S. She had previously gained British citizenship through marriage, which she used to gain residency in the U.S.Ĭhapman pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government. At the time of her arrest, she was accused of espionage on behalf of the Russian Federation's external intelligence agency, the Sluzhba vneshney razvedki (SVR). Anna Vasilyevna Chapman ( Russian: А́нна Васи́льевна Ча́пман born Anna Vasilyevna Kushchenko, 23 February 1982) is a Russian intelligence agent, media personality and model who was arrested in the United States on 27 June 2010 as part of the Illegals Program spy ring.
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