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Elena Branson was charged Tuesday with acting and conspiring to act in the US illegally as an agent of the Russian government, willfully failing to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, conspiring to commit visa fraud and making false statements to the FBI, according to a criminal complaint.
The complaint alleges that Branson fled to Russia in 2020.
From at least 2011, Branson worked on behalf of the Russian government and Russian officials to advance Russian interests in the US, the complaint says. Prosecutors allege she coordinated meetings for Russian officials to lobby US political officials and businesspeople, and operated organizations to publicly promote Russian government policies.
CNN has attempted to contact Branson for comment on the charges.
The charges come as tensions between the US and Russia continue to intensify following Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine last month, with the US front-and-center in a multinational effort to punish Russia for its actions.
Among the allegations, prosecutors say Branson exchanged a series of emails in March 2016 with a Russian minister, who asked her to organize a meeting with Donald Trump , who was then a Republican presidential candidate, or his daughter, in New York. The complaint says Branson sent the minister a draft letter to the now-former President inviting him to the Russia Forum New York in April 2016, but there is no indication that Trump or his children attended the meeting.
CNN has reached out to representatives of Trump for comment.
Prosecutors allege Branson ran an organization in New York City called the Russian Center New York, which allegedly received "tens of thousands of dollars in funding from the Russian government and have taken direct orders from Russian officials concerning events and public messaging," according to the complaint.
US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams said that Branson is alleged to have corresponded with Russian Vladimir Putin, and met with a high-ranking Russian minister before founding a "propaganda center" in New York City.
"Branson's promotional outreach, including an 'I Love Russia' campaign aimed at American youths, exemplifies her attempts to act at the behest of the Russian government to illegally promote its interests in the United States," Williams said in a statement.
"Particularly given current global events, the need to detect and hinder attempts at foreign influence is of critical importance, and the Southern District of New York is proud to do its part in the fight against tyranny," he added.
Prosecutors said the FBI interviewed Branson in September 2020 and that she falsely claimed she'd never been asked by Russian officials to coordinate meetings between US business leaders or politicians and Russian government officials.
The organization's offices were searched by the FBI in 2020, and prosecutors allege Branson flew to Moscow about a month after the search.
In 2021, prosecutors said, Branson did an interview with Russian state-controlled network Russia Today, where she said she left the US because she was "scared" and thought it was likely that she'd be arrested if she stayed in the country.
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Updated 0358 GMT (1158 HKT) March 9, 2022
(CNN) A dual Russian-American citizen has been charged with acting as a spy in the US, according to court filings that say she ran organizations that "sought to spread Russian propaganda."

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Russian intelligence agent, media personality and model (born 1982)
For other people with the same name, see Anne Chapman (disambiguation) .
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions , the patronymic is Vasilyevna and the family name is Kushchenko .


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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. 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). [2] [3] [4]
She had previously gained British citizenship through marriage, which she used to gain residency in the U.S.

Chapman pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government. She and the other Russians were deported to Russia on 8 July 2010, as part of the 2010 Russia–U.S. prisoner swap . Learning that Chapman had wanted to return to the United Kingdom, the UK government revoked her British citizenship and excluded her from the country.

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.

Chapman was born Anna Vasilyevna Kushchenko (Russian: А́нна Васи́льевна Кущенко ) in Kharkiv on 23 February 1982. [5] Her father was a senior KGB official employed in the Soviet embassy in Nairobi , Kenya. [6] [7] The family's home is located in south-west Ramenki District , a once-elite district for KGB officials, mid-ranking diplomats, and army officers. [8] According to Komsomolskaya Pravda , Kushchenko occupies a senior position at the ministry known by its Russian initials MID (foreign affairs). According to her ex-husband, Anna earned a master's degree in economics with first class honours from Moscow University . [9] According to other sources, she got her degree from Peoples' Friendship University of Russia . [10] [11]

Anna Kushchenko met Alex Chapman at a London Docklands rave party in 2001. They married shortly thereafter in Moscow , [12] and she gained British citizenship, in addition to her native Russian one, and a British passport. [13]

In 2003 or 2004, Anna Chapman moved to London where she worked at NetJets , Barclays . [14]

Anna and Alex Chapman divorced in 2006. [12] In March 2018, it was reported that Alex Chapman had died in May 2015, aged 36, from a drug overdose. [15] [16]

In 2009, Chapman moved to New York, taking up residence at 20 Exchange Place , one block from Wall Street in Manhattan . [17] [18] Her LinkedIn social networking site profile identified her as CEO of PropertyFinder LLC, a website selling real estate internationally. [18] [19] Her husband Alex stated that Anna told him the enterprise was continually in debt for the first couple of years. But suddenly in 2009, she had as many as 50 employees and a successful business. [12]

Chapman was reportedly in a relationship with Michel Bittan, a divorced Israeli-Moroccan restaurant owner, while she was living in New York. [20] [21] Around this time, she had allegedly attempted to purchase ecstasy tablets. [22] She later described her time in the United States with the Charles Dickens quote, "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times". [23]

After Anna was arrested in New York on charges of spying, Alex hired media publicist Max Clifford , and sold her story to The Daily Telegraph . [12] [24] [25] She pleaded guilty to conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. Attorney General . In 2010 she was deported to Russia as part of a prisoner exchange between the United States and Russia. [26]

In late December 2010, Chapman was appointed to the public council of Young Guard of United Russia . [27] [28] According to the organization, she would "be engaged in educating young people". [29] [30]

On 21 January 2011, Chapman began hosting a weekly TV show in Russia called Secrets of the World for REN TV . [3] [31] In June 2011, Chapman was appointed as editor of Venture Business News magazine, according to Bloomberg News . [32] [33]

Chapman testified to the closed trial in absentia of Col. Alexander Poteyev , an ex-KGB soldier, which took place in Moscow in May and June 2011. [34] Chapman testified that only Poteyev could have provided the U.S. authorities with the information that led to her arrest in 2010; [35] she also alleged that she was arrested shortly after an undercover U.S. agent contacted her using a code that only Poteyev and her personal handler would have known. [35]

Chapman wrote a column for Komsomolskaya Pravda . In October 2011, she was accused of plagiarizing material on Alexander Pushkin from a book by Kremlin spin doctor Oleg Matveychev . [36] The Guardian reported that this incident added to general negative opinions of her in certain sections of Russian society; it said that in September 2011, she had been "heckled during a speech on leadership at St Petersburg University ". Students had, it said, displayed signs stating: "Chapman, get ou
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