*Make that "Anna Kushchenko." Diplomat's daughter. Married foreigner on impulse at 19. Dad's old pals appear on line one. Exit the marriage stage left.
*What the heck is this article doing in a publication called "Bharat Chronicle," one idly wonders.
http://www.bharatchronicle.com/the-russian-spy-anna-chapmans-profile-7216
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"In 2005 the marriage faltered, with Mr Chapman saying she started to become “very secretive, going for meetings on her own with ‘Russian friends’.
"These meetings apparently transformed her, he said, from someone who had never been “materialistic” into someone “with access to a lot of money, boasting about all the influential people she was meeting”. She became “arrogant and obnoxious,” he claimed, and they divorced in 2006.
"Despite telling him that she disliked Americans, she then moved there after a brief spell at home in Russia, saying she intended to make her fortune in New York
"There she threw herself into the party scene, shopping at Prada and Gucci, going to “flashy clubs” and picking up a rich, much older Russian boyfriend, according to neighbours....
(((It gets worse:)))
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20009515-503543.html
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The couple met at a nightclub in London and were married in Anna's native Russia just five months later. It was their honeymoon in Zimbabwe when Alex first met Anna's father, the "scary" Vasily Kushchenko, working then as Russian diplomat in the African nation.
Chapman tells The Telegraph that Anna once described her father as former senior-level KBG agent, in "old Russia".
"He didn't trust anyone. He asked me why I had chosen a Russian bride and asked what business I had in Russia, and I said none," Chapman told the newspaper in an exclusive interview.
"He was scary. He would never introduce me to other Russian people who came to the house and he always seemed to have a lot more security than the other diplomats. He had a Land Rover with blacked out windows and there was always one car in front of it and one car behind."
MI5 is now looking into the possibility that Kushchenko groomed his daughter into the family business during her time in London. She spent time working for a major international bank and a hedge fund – where she could have had access to personal details of some of Britain's wealthiest individuals.
"Her father controlled everything in her life," Chapman told The Telegraph. "I felt she would have done anything for her dad."
"Towards the end of our marriage she became very secretive, going for meetings on her own with 'Russian friends', and I guess it might have been because she was in contact with the Russian government," the English man speculated...
