Anna Chapman, one of the ten persons who were detained by the US authorities on Monday morning as Russian spies, is apparently an Internet entrepreneur who went on a mission to seek for Moscow based investors to start an online poker site, one such as PokerTime. (Which is us, in case you don’t know where you are?)
Chapman, a 28 year old lady living in Manhattan, NYU, was arrested on Monday morning for using her social connections to feed secret information to the Russian Government. A friend of hers in Moscow downplayed his connection to Chapman on the Fox News website. Alexander Galtsky, the managing partner of a Russian investment firm denied any connection to Chapman, but he did say there was an interest from her side to start an online poker company.
While online poker is not specifically illegal in the USA, and is legal in numerous countries around the planet, Galtsky did not specifically say where Chapman wanted to start up her online poker site and where she wanted to operate.
"She tried to raise capital for her online real estate business,” the Russian investor stated in an email. "After this she tried to speak about some other initiative like online poker, but this is out of our policy."
Chapman has been acknowledged as the head of an online real estate website that might be the front of an information collection device. A real estate acquaintance said she absolutely knew nothing about the real estate market.
In accordance with her arrest by the FBI, she’s been accused of flirting and using her social connections to make friends with national security personnel, Congressional counsel, military scientists, and political fundraisers at the highest level. She has been accused of been instructed by Russian operatives to gather information on the policies and goals of the current Obama administrations in the upcoming G20 in Canada.
I think this case might be one big bluff.