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MelissaB

(16,420 posts) Tue Feb 27, 2018, 04:49 PM Feb 2018

This story keeps getting crazier and crazier.

This story keeps getting crazier and crazier. The Russian 'model' who exposed Russian oligarch Deripaska and Deputy prime minister Prihodko on Deripaska's yacht, has now been arrested in Thailand for running a 'sex seminar'

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A model named Nastya Rybka says she will spill information on Trump and Russia to get out of a Thai jail

MOSCOW -- A self-described sex expert whose videos highlighted the ties between one of Russia’s richest men and the Kremlin has been jailed in Thailand and is calling for U.S. help, claiming she has information about links between Russia and President Donald Trump.

Anastasia Vashukevich, an escort-service worker from Belarus who catapulted to a certain measure of fame after filming a yacht trip with Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska and Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko, was detained in Thailand over the weekend in a police raid on her “sex training” seminar. While still in custody on Tuesday, she published Instagram videos asking U.S. journalists and intelligence agencies to help her.

Deripaska, with whom Vashukevich said she had an affair, used to employ former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. But Vashukevich, better known by the alias Nastya Rybka, provided no evidence on Tuesday to back up the claim that she had new information to offer related to the investigation into Russian election interference. A post to her Instagram account showed her sitting on the floor of what was described as a Thai jail and said she was sick.

“I am the only witness and the missing link in the connection between Russia and the U.S. elections -- the long chain of Oleg Deripaska, Prikhodko, Manafort, and Trump,” Vashukevich said in a live Instagram video Tuesday, apparently shot as she was driven in an open-air police van through the Thai resort city of Pattaya. “In exchange for help from U.S. intelligence services and a guarantee of my safety, I am prepared to provide the necessary information to America or to Europe or to the country which can buy me out of Thai prison.”

More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/02/27/in-thai-jail-after-sex-training-a-model-who-rattled-russian-elite-asks-u-s-for-help/?utm_term=.76df75d481e6

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This story keeps getting crazier and crazier. (Original Post) MelissaB Feb 2018 OP

I'd say her life expectancy is under a week. Squinch Feb 2018 #1

The chances of "accidentally dying" in a Thai prison is quite high. sunonmars Feb 2018 #3

I don't know if she really has any information but I think she's scared and desperate. octoberlib Feb 2018 #2

"A model named Nastya..." Ilsa Feb 2018 #4

Id Kick In to a GoFundMe to spring her! Orange Free State Feb 2018 #5

Alexei Navalny posted a video on this recently- I cannot find it now - Leghorn21 Feb 2018 #6

Squinch

(51,026 posts)

1. I'd say her life expectancy is under a week.

Reply to MelissaB (Original post)

Tue Feb 27, 2018, 04:50 PM

Feb 2018

sunonmars

(8,656 posts)

3. The chances of "accidentally dying" in a Thai prison is quite high.

Reply to Squinch (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 27, 2018, 04:55 PM

Feb 2018

octoberlib

(14,971 posts)

2. I don't know if she really has any information but I think she's scared and desperate.

Reply to MelissaB (Original post)

Tue Feb 27, 2018, 04:53 PM

Feb 2018

Ilsa

(61,700 posts)

4. "A model named Nastya..."

Reply to MelissaB (Original post)

Tue Feb 27, 2018, 04:56 PM

Feb 2018

Nasty-a is running a sex seminar? During Lent? Say it isn't so!

What a fun headline.

Orange Free State

(611 posts)

5. Id Kick In to a GoFundMe to spring her!

Reply to MelissaB (Original post)

Tue Feb 27, 2018, 04:58 PM

Feb 2018

I’d like to hear what she or any of her Russian peeers have to say. (Pun intended) And I agree, she may not last very long. People who indicate a willingness to talk quickly get the old beryllium pellet or whatever in the ankle.

Leghorn21

(13,527 posts)

6. Alexei Navalny posted a video on this recently- I cannot find it now -

Reply to MelissaB (Original post)

Tue Feb 27, 2018, 05:02 PM

Feb 2018

From Feb. 13

Russia has threatened to block access to YouTube and Instagram if the websites do not remove videos and photos of a Kremlin-linked oligarch’s meeting with a senior government minister on a luxury yacht.

The meeting between Oleg Deripaska, an aluminium and mining tycoon, and Sergei Prikhodko, a Russian deputy prime minister, was the subject of a recent investigation by Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition figurehead.

Navalny’s investigation was based on footage and photographs posted to Instagram in 2016 by Anastasiya Vashukevich, a 21-year-old model and escort who goes by the name Nastya Rybka. Vashukevich said she had been hired to spend time with the men on the yacht on a trip off the coast of Norway.

“An oligarch takes a top government official on a ride on his own yacht – that’s a bribe,” Navalny said in a video that has had more than 4m views. “An oligarch pays for all of this, including young women from escort agencies. Believe it or not, that is also a bribe.”

More:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/13/russian-watchdog-orders-youtube-to-remove-navalny-video

Edit - found it

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