Glamourous spy Anna Chapman was traded for Skripal in a spy swap in 2010. Photo / Instagram
Glamourous spy Anna Chapman was traded for Skripal in a spy swap in 2010. Photo / Instagram
Glamorous spy Anna Chapman has branded poisoned double agent Sergei Skripal a "traitor".
Chapman was traded for Skripal, who is fighting for life in hospital, in a 2010 spy swap. She however found no words of comfort for the 66-year-old.
Instead Chapman attacked Britain by saying: 'As always Russia is guilty by default - despite the fact that traitor Skripal was pardoned by the President, and released, reports Daily Mail.
"When investigating any murder, the first issue is the motive of the crime.
"In any case, Russia is definitely not interested in such scandal.
"Does the West needs proof to blame Russia?"
Glamourous spy Anna Chapman was traded for Skripal in a spy swap in 2010. Photo / Instagram
Her emotional rant on Instagram came almost a week after Skripal and his daughter were poisoned by an unknown nerve agent in Salisbury, plunging relations between London and Moscow to a new low.
The pair were found unconscious the day after 33-year-old Yulia arrived in Britain on a two week visit from Moscow, where she lives.
Other members of the Skripal family have been found dead in recent years, although it is not clear if their deaths were suspicious.
In 2010, Chapman, who was previously married to a British ex-public schoolboy, was part of a Cold War-style swap with Skripal.
She posed in a red dress apparently in a leftover picture from Christmas for her posting, embracing two reindeer.
Former spy Sergei Skripal shops at a store in Salisbury, England. Photo / ITN
Chapman - expelled from the US in 2010 after being unmasked by the FBI as a SVR foreign intelligence asset - is now seen as a propagandist for the Kremlin.
She has 108,000 followers on Instagram.
Recent postings show Chapman - who was stripped of her British passport by then Home Secretary Theresa May after being unmasked her as a spy operating in New York - relaxing in swimwear in Thailand.
Since the spy swap, glamour SVR spy has become a multi-millionaire with her Russian business ventures including her own fashion line and work as a TV presenter.
Pictures show her relaxing on Phuket at Nai Harn Baan-Bua - a sumptuous jacuzzi villa complex where a minimum three night stay costs around £600 (NZD $1,141)
In one posting she lauded Putin as a "sensation" for a recent speech.
Chapman is a mother of one, giving birth to a son in summer 2015.
She has not disclosed the identity of the child's father.
She has worked as a TV presenter on a show called Mysteries of the World for Ren-TV, a channel owned by National Media Group, headed by ex-Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva, 34, rumoured to be Putin's secret girlfriend.
Chapman - who also runs her own label fashion boutiques in Moscow - is seen as having made a fortune since she was caught red handed operating as a spy in New York in 2010.
