Jack Laurence

My mum's from Redhill, so literally 15 minutes from you.

Yes, this apparent criminal mastermind of crypto and friend of North Korea was in fact an extremely nice, polite, well-spoken man from a small town not too far from my own hometown in the United Kingdom.

So just how does someone like Christopher Ems end up on the FBI's wanted list for claims of counterintelligence?

Well, like the rest of our stories, we start from the very beginnings.

I'm from the UK.

I was born in a place called Guildford, which is just south of London for anyone at home that isn't familiar.

It's a small city.

And so I spent sort of my former years there.

And then I actually grew up in the south of Spain on the Costa del Sol.

So that was lovely.

Moved back to the UK when I was 16 to do my A-levels.

And then I sort of dotted around the world, lived back in a place called Gibraltar, which is near sort of a

British territory in the south coast of Spain.

Lived in Malta for a while as well.

Lived in Berlin in Germany, which was fun.

And then in Dubai.

And now obviously here in lovely Moscow.

Sunny Moscow actually today for a change.

So Chris is a well-travelled man, but now calls Russia home.

When you're wanted by the FBI, you really need to avoid any country with an extradition treaty, even if that means your own country of birth.