Anna Chapman got her revenge yesterday against the double agent in Moscow who betrayed her and nine fellow Russian spies in the United States.
The flame-haired ex-agent testified against Col. Alexander Poteyev, who was tried in absentia for tipping off US intelligence about the spy ring and prompting their arrest in June 2010.
Chapman, now a star host on Russian TV, said she became suspicious while living in New York when contacted by a man who used a code name, Ilya Fabrichnikov, that was known only to Poteyev and her handler in Moscow, according to the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda.
Chapman testified in Moscow Military District Court that she quickly alerted her handler but she and the nine other sleeper agents — who had been posing as Americans — were arrested a short time later.
Chapman identified a photo of Poteyev yesterday, shortly before he was convicted of treason and desertion and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
But Poteyev, 59, isn’t likely to be doing jail time: When he heard the FBI was closing down the spy ring he told his wife he had to go on a business trip by train to Minsk, Belarus.
Using a passport with a bogus name, he reached Ukraine, then Germany and eventually a hiding place in the US.

