Model in Russian court apologizes for US election claim
Source: Associated Press
By JIM HEINTZ
today
MOSCOW (AP) A Belarusian model and self-styled sex instructor who last year claimed to have evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election said Saturday that she apologizes to a Russian tycoon for the claim and wont say more about the matter.
Anastasia Vashukevich made the statement in a Moscow court that was considering whether to keep her in jail as she faces charges of inducement to prostitution. The court extended her detention for three more days.
Vashukevichs statement appears to head off any chance of her speaking to U.S. investigators looking into possible collusion between Russia and President Donald Trumps campaign.
Vashukevich, who goes by the name Nastya Rybka on social media, was arrested in Thailand last February on prostitution charges. She and several others were arrested in connection with a sex training seminar they were holding in Thailand.
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dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)I assumed sadly that was the end for her.
Xipe Totec
(43,900 posts)SunSeeker
(51,901 posts)We did not even let her show us what evidence she had.
Now she is just trying to save herself from being executed by Putin. Any confession or apology she issues at this point is obviously coerced.
iluvtennis
(19,935 posts)having nothing to say on it will spare her life
FakeNoose
(33,013 posts)I hope she can still get out of there. Maybe she can claim she's an orphan and somebody will adopt her.
I suspect she will disappear soon.
BigmanPigman
(51,717 posts)DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)...to a US consulate with proof-in-hand. Would have stood a chance of getting the story out without bullets going into her.
cstanleytech
(26,390 posts)DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)defacto7
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(4,843 posts)Jim__
(14,101 posts)UpInArms
(51,299 posts)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.
Navalnys 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 thats 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.
Navalny also alleged, without offering proof, that Deripaska was briefing Prikhodko on information on the 2016 US presidential campaign that he had received from Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign manager.
Manafort, who has had business dealings with Deripaska, offered private updates to the oligarch on Trumps election campaign in a 2016 email, the Washington Post reported last year. Deripaska says he was not contacted by Manafort about such briefings.
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