Anna Chapman: UK links to Russian spy suspect
Woman arrested in Russian spy row worked in Britain, employer confirms
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Anna Chapman: UK links to Russian spy suspect
Woman arrested in Russian spy row worked in Britain, employer confirms
The Guardian, Wednesday 30 June 2010 Article history
Suspected spy Anna Chapman. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features
Anna Chapman, a woman at the centre of a transatlantic probe into spy allegations, previously worked in the UK, her former employer confirms.
Chapman was one of 11 people arrested in the US by the FBI, accused of serving as secret agents of Russia's intelligence service.
According to reports, Chapman lived in the UK for four years from 2003. Private plane hire firm NetJets Europe said: "Ms Chapman was employed by NetJets Europe from May to July 2004, as an executive assistant in the sales department."
According to her profile on the networking website LinkedIn, Chapman worked in London from September 2003. In addition to working at NetJets Europe, her profile says she worked in the investment banking division at Barclays Bank and also at Navigator hedge fund.
Barclays told the Daily Mail that the bank had no record of an Anna Chapman working in its investment division in 2004 and 2005.
Chapman's profile says she has run her own company, internet estate agency Property Finder Ltd, since October 2006 and that she is now based in New York.
She claims to speak Russian, English, German and French and to have a masters degree in economics from a Russian university.
Her profile claims she studied financial planning at the UK-based BPP International Educational Centre, although a centre spokeswoman said she was unable to confirm whether Chapman had studied there.
According to reports in US newspapers, Chapman married a British citizen.
Chapman's Facebook page includes several glamorous photographs and a black and white photo showing her wearing what appears to be the uniform of the Young Pioneer organisation, the former Soviet Union's equivalent of the Scouts. |
