£9.7m HOUSE DEAL FOR ANTHEA

PAY DAY: For Anthea

By Carole Aye Maung, 30/08/2009

HARD-UP Anthea Turner and Grant Bovey have sold their Surrey mansion to a Russian billionaire who is on Interpol's wanted list.

Mobile phone magnate Evgeny Chichvarkin, 34, has bought the 57-acre Barbins Grange for £9.7 million, giving the former TV golden girl and her husband a £7.1million profit on the home they paid £2.6 million for in 1999.

The couple, whose property businesses crashed in the credit crunch, have downsized to a four-bedroom property nearby.

Eccentric Chichvarkin, who has a crazy mullet haircut and dresses in red, yellow and orange, sold his mobile phone business to another Russian billionaire in November for £250million cash.

A warrant for his arrest was issued in Moscow in January.

He had fallen out with the authorities over a tax bill.

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How nice for them to have some money to be able to buy someone a little more to their taste. Personally i think they should pay off their bills they owe and move into a council house. That would suit them nicely Anthea can then maybe learn to live within her meagre means like the rest of us do.
There is a house comming up in our road if she's intrerested, it's not much and it's a rough area but at least it's a place called home.

By Lorna . Posted August 31 2009 at 11:20 AM.

Will they be paying back some of their creditors out of this profit? Nah, thought not.

By Jay. Posted August 30 2009 at 8:15 AM.

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