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From Russia Wif Luv! ... Flaming Hot Femme Fatale - Anna Chapman ...
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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.
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A modern day Bond girl?
Sitting in the window of a Starbucks one Wednesday in January, Anna Chapman looked like any other attractive young professional in the canyons of midtown Manhattan, toting a laptop and sipping an overpriced beverage.
But while other latte-drinkers might have been polishing their résumés or perusing the Internet, Ms. Chapman was allegedly engaged in a piece of high-tech espionage. Using her laptop, she passed information over a private wireless network to a computer in a minivan circling nearby, according to U.S. authorities, in a virtual rendezvous that would be repeated on successive Wednesdays.
If the spy scandal now rocking the United States sometimes feels like a plot out of an Ian Fleming novel, then Ms. Chapman, 28, has emerged as its very own modern-day Bond girl.
Visitors to her Facebook page see a young woman directing a sultry glance at the camera from her sloping green eyes, a slice of bare shoulder, and a hand adorned with pearly pink nail polish. Other photos show her with flaming red hair wearing a short dress in a similar shade of scarlet.
When asked by an undercover federal agent, posing as a Russian handler, whether she was ready to complete more covert work, her answer was unequivocal. “Shit, of course,” Ms. Chapman said, according to the complaint filed in federal court Monday.
Unlike the other alleged spies for Russia, U.S. authorities believe that Ms. Chapman and another man, Mikhail Semenko, were using their real names, not assumed identities. None of the allegations have been proven.
A call to Ms. Chapman's lawyer to confirm details of her biography wasn't returned, but various reports say the Russian native completed a master's degree in economics at a university in Moscow and was previously married.
It's unclear exactly when Ms. Chapman began spending time in New York, though unlike the other suspected spies, she does not appear to have been in the country for long. An energetic networker with a taste for tequila, she took to the city like a native. “The moon is amazing tonight in New York,” she wrote on her Facebook page on April 28.
Around that time federal agents observed her in the vicinity of an unnamed Russian government official. On both occasions, they detected the same two Macintosh laptops connected on a private wireless network. In total, agents observed 10 such Wednesday encounters involving Ms. Chapman, according to the complaint.
For Ms. Chapman, the endgame began as world leaders were assembling in Toronto for the Group of 20 summit this past Saturday. That afternoon in Manhattan, she met with the undercover FBI agent posing as a Russian consulate official, who asked her to pass a fake passport to another alleged spy.
The exchange would begin, she was told, with a particular question-and-answer. The person receiving the passport would ask, “Excuse me, but haven't we met in California last summer?” Ms. Chapman would respond, “No, I think it was the Hamptons.” Ms. Chapman didn't show up for the planned meeting.
On Saturday evening, authorities say, Ms. Chapman dumped a bag containing a cellphone agreement with a made-up name and address (Irine Kutsov of 99 Fake Street), a sign that she had purchased a new phone in order to be able to make calls undetected, the complaint alleges.A judge denied Ms. Chapman's petition for bail on Monday. A call to her New York cell number goes straight to a message, where a slightly gravelly female voice asks callers in Russian-accented English to send a text message rather than leave a voice-mail message.
Sitting in the window of a Starbucks one Wednesday in January, Anna Chapman looked like any other attractive young professional in the canyons of midtown Manhattan, toting a laptop and sipping an overpriced beverage.
But while other latte-drinkers might have been polishing their résumés or perusing the Internet, Ms. Chapman was allegedly engaged in a piece of high-tech espionage. Using her laptop, she passed information over a private wireless network to a computer in a minivan circling nearby, according to U.S. authorities, in a virtual rendezvous that would be repeated on successive Wednesdays.
If the spy scandal now rocking the United States sometimes feels like a plot out of an Ian Fleming novel, then Ms. Chapman, 28, has emerged as its very own modern-day Bond girl.
Visitors to her Facebook page see a young woman directing a sultry glance at the camera from her sloping green eyes, a slice of bare shoulder, and a hand adorned with pearly pink nail polish. Other photos show her with flaming red hair wearing a short dress in a similar shade of scarlet.
When asked by an undercover federal agent, posing as a Russian handler, whether she was ready to complete more covert work, her answer was unequivocal. “Shit, of course,” Ms. Chapman said, according to the complaint filed in federal court Monday.
Unlike the other alleged spies for Russia, U.S. authorities believe that Ms. Chapman and another man, Mikhail Semenko, were using their real names, not assumed identities. None of the allegations have been proven.
A call to Ms. Chapman's lawyer to confirm details of her biography wasn't returned, but various reports say the Russian native completed a master's degree in economics at a university in Moscow and was previously married.
It's unclear exactly when Ms. Chapman began spending time in New York, though unlike the other suspected spies, she does not appear to have been in the country for long. An energetic networker with a taste for tequila, she took to the city like a native. “The moon is amazing tonight in New York,” she wrote on her Facebook page on April 28.
Around that time federal agents observed her in the vicinity of an unnamed Russian government official. On both occasions, they detected the same two Macintosh laptops connected on a private wireless network. In total, agents observed 10 such Wednesday encounters involving Ms. Chapman, according to the complaint.
For Ms. Chapman, the endgame began as world leaders were assembling in Toronto for the Group of 20 summit this past Saturday. That afternoon in Manhattan, she met with the undercover FBI agent posing as a Russian consulate official, who asked her to pass a fake passport to another alleged spy.
The exchange would begin, she was told, with a particular question-and-answer. The person receiving the passport would ask, “Excuse me, but haven't we met in California last summer?” Ms. Chapman would respond, “No, I think it was the Hamptons.” Ms. Chapman didn't show up for the planned meeting.
On Saturday evening, authorities say, Ms. Chapman dumped a bag containing a cellphone agreement with a made-up name and address (Irine Kutsov of 99 Fake Street), a sign that she had purchased a new phone in order to be able to make calls undetected, the complaint alleges.A judge denied Ms. Chapman's petition for bail on Monday. A call to her New York cell number goes straight to a message, where a slightly gravelly female voice asks callers in Russian-accented English to send a text message rather than leave a voice-mail message.
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