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. According to her ex-husband, Anna earned a master's degree in economics with first class honours from Moscow State University. According to Komsomolskaya Pravda, Kushchenko occupies a senior position at the ministry known by its Russian initials MID (foreign affairs). The family's home is located in south-west Ramenki District, a once-elite district for KGB officials, mid-ranking diplomats, and army officers. Her father was a senior KGB official employed in the Soviet embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. 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 on 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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