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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBelarusian model: I gave info on Trump to Russian tycoon
Source: Associated Press
Belarusian model: I gave info on Trump to Russian tycoon
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA
February 1, 2019
MOSCOW (AP) A Belarusian model who claims to have information on ties between Russia and Donald Trumps election campaign told The Associated Press on Friday that she has turned that material over to Russian billionaire businessman Oleg Deripaska.
Anastasia Vashukevich fueled speculation around possible ties between Trump and the Kremlin last year when she posted a video from a police van, saying she had 16 hours of audio and video proving ties between Russian officials and the Trump campaign that influenced the 2016 U.S. elections.
Deripaska denied the allegations and even went to court to seek to remove the video Vashukevich posted in which he discusses U.S.-Russia ties with a senior Russian government official.
Vashukevich, who is also known as Nastya Rybka, returned to Russia last month almost a year after she was detained in Thailand on charges of soliciting sex, in what some believe was an attempt to silence her.
Vashukevich, 28, told the AP in an interview Friday that, contrary to earlier reports that she had destroyed the recordings, she had given them to Deripaska because it relates to him and that she did not want any more trouble.
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By NATALIYA VASILYEVA
February 1, 2019
MOSCOW (AP) A Belarusian model who claims to have information on ties between Russia and Donald Trumps election campaign told The Associated Press on Friday that she has turned that material over to Russian billionaire businessman Oleg Deripaska.
Anastasia Vashukevich fueled speculation around possible ties between Trump and the Kremlin last year when she posted a video from a police van, saying she had 16 hours of audio and video proving ties between Russian officials and the Trump campaign that influenced the 2016 U.S. elections.
Deripaska denied the allegations and even went to court to seek to remove the video Vashukevich posted in which he discusses U.S.-Russia ties with a senior Russian government official.
Vashukevich, who is also known as Nastya Rybka, returned to Russia last month almost a year after she was detained in Thailand on charges of soliciting sex, in what some believe was an attempt to silence her.
Vashukevich, 28, told the AP in an interview Friday that, contrary to earlier reports that she had destroyed the recordings, she had given them to Deripaska because it relates to him and that she did not want any more trouble.
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Belarusian model: I gave info on Trump to Russian tycoon (Original Post)
Eugene
Feb 2019
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htuttle
(23,738 posts)1. Even more Kompromat on Trump
You don't think he's going to 'destroy' it do you?
triron
(22,020 posts)5. I'm sure he shared it with Putty.
sdfernando
(4,941 posts)2. she will be taken care of in typical putin fashion I'm sure
She will fall down a flight of stair, or "fall" out a window. If I were her, I'd be fearing for my life. Would have been safer staying in the Thailand jail.
triron
(22,020 posts)3. So Deripaska is rewarded by receiving sanctions relief. Hmmm.
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