An alleged accomplice of former KGB spy Anna Chapman has been arrested in Holland after being suspected of passing on sensitive German government documents.
Identified only as Raymond P, aged 60, the man was targeted by the German Federal Prosecutor’s Office.
German media reported today that he allegedly passed on 450 secret files to a couple linked to Chapman. He is now in custody and refusing to speak to investigators.
News magazine Focus said the man, thought to be a Dutch diplomat, gave the paperwork to a couple arrested in the German university city of Marburg who are believed to have belonged to the same espionage network as Chapman and were provided with false identity papers by their Moscow controllers.
They deny charges of espionage and using false documents.
Chapman, 30, nicknamed the Lady in Red, is the daughter of a former KGB agent. She is said to have used her charms to entrap targets and gain vital information from them.
She lived and worked in London for five years before allegedly becoming part of a spy ring based in the US which sent secrets back to the Kremlin.
Chapman was arrested in the US in 2010 for espionage and then deported along with nine other Russian agents.
Born Anna Vasil’yevna Kushchyenko, Chapman kept her British surname after marrying former public schoolboy Alex Chapman. They divorced in 2006.
