Chloe Hadjimatheou

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3,299 appearances 16 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 27 Aug

Chloe Hadjimatheou’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Careless | Tortoise Investigates · Asma’s deal | We call her Emma Ep4 · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

Ayman is Bashar's former advisor. voice-verified

They fell out years ago, but he's still very well connected. voice-verified

And it's Ayman who told me about Asma's attempt to leave Syria. voice-verified

London, to her home. voice-verified

The recording of Ayman you heard at the end of the last episode came from our conversation in this restaurant, where he told me that around the time of that spectacular email hack, when Asma was caught shopping, she tried to flee. voice-verified

And she got as far as the airport with her kids? voice-verified

And then what happened? voice-verified

So how would they have stopped her? voice-verified

In some ways, you could interpret this as a humanising moment. voice-verified

It gives credence to what people like Brooks and Maria have told me, that Asma was trapped by the regime with no way out. voice-verified

If Bashar had let Asma go, it would have risked making the regime look weak, a very public fracture. voice-verified

So when Ayman first told me this, I made an assumption that she'd tried to escape because she couldn't accept the violence being perpetrated in the regime's name. voice-verified

But it turns out her issue was less about her husband's politics and more to do with their relationship. voice-verified

They were married women. voice-verified

We'll get to the married women... voice-verified

For now, those hacked emails also contained several flirty exchanges between Bashar and young, Western-educated, ambitious Syrian women, younger versions of Asma, if you like. voice-verified

Back at the start of the war, they were working as aides to the president and they'd sent emails in which the tone isn't, well, it isn't what you'd normally expect between a boss and his junior advisers. voice-verified

They called him the dude and went on about how loved he was by his people and told him they missed him. voice-verified

One woman even sent a photograph of herself posing. voice-verified

She had her back against the wall wearing sexy lingerie. voice-verified

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