if found guilty the couple face up to 10 years in prison anna chapman and the russian spy ring they collected an alleged 100000 euros in year in salary from the russian government more than 30000 swiss francs and 35000 euros were found in their residence at the time of their arrest their last alleged caper was the recruitment of a dutch foreign ministry official who reportedly sold them secret documents on nato operations for 96500 according to the german newspaper die welt click here for the blotter homepage the anschlags are being represented by munich attorney horstdieter potschke who defended accused kgb and stasi agents in the 1970s and 1980s according to german media anna chapman a young attractive russian national residing in new york pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government and was deported from the united states in july 2010 in a spy exchange their daughter maria now in her 20s has not been charged prosecutors believe the anschlags were preparing to leave germany and head back to russia perhaps because the russian government was concerned that the discovery of the chapman ring would lead to their exposure as well as part of their alleged cover andreas who claimed to be in his early 50s worked as an engineer and heidrun in her late 40s played tennis with local women the middleaged couple still known only by their aliases andreas and heidrun anschlag denied the charges in court today in stuttgart when the german security agents penetrated their home in marburg mrs anschlag was reportedly seated at her desk in front of a wireless radio transmitter that was receiving encoded messages the couple was arrested in october 2011 andreas anschlag was arrested at the couples second home in balingen they are accused of transferring information on nato european and german security policies to the soviet and then russian intelligence service in a page out of a cold war novel the russian couple moved to west germany in the late 1980s posing as austrian nationals of latin american descent the arrest reportedly came on a tip from the same mole who tipped off us security services to the russian spy sleeper cell that included anna chapman and nine others in 2010 according to die welt photos andreas anschlag had left his job and talked of moving to eastern europe jan 15 2013 151 a married pair of alleged sleeper spies went on trial in germany tuesday accused of spying for russia for more than two decades while living a quiet middleclass life and raising a daughter who had no idea of her parents true identities