Anna Chapman (born February 23, 1982) is a Russian business woman, who while living in New York, United States was arrested along with nine others on June 27, 2010, on suspicion of working for an Illegals Program spy ring under the Russian Federation's external intelligence agency, the SVR (Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki). Chapman pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. Attorney General, and was deported back to Russia on July 8, 2010, as part of the 2010 Russia–United States Prisoner Swap.
Biography :
Born Anna Kushchenko in Volgograd, according to US authorities, her father was employed in the Russian embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. According to her British ex-husband, her father, Vasily Kushchenko, was also a senior KGB official, although this is unsubstantiated. She attended an elite boarding school and earned a masters degree in economics from the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia in Moscow.
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