Model Who Claimed Russian Help for Trump Detained, Interfax Says
Source: Bloomberg
A Belarusian model who claimed to have evidence of possible Russian help for U.S. President Donald Trumps election was detained Thursday upon landing in Moscow after being deported from Thailand, Interfax reported.
Anastasia Vashukevich, whos known by her online name Nastya Rybka, was taken into custody on suspicion of organizing prostitution along with her seduction guru Alexander Kirillov at Moscows Sheremetyevo airport, the Russian news service reported, citing Kirillovs wife.
Vashukevich together with Kirillov and other associates who had been caught up in a police raid last year on their seduction seminar in the seaside resort of Pattaya was freed from a Thai prison and put on a flight to the Russian capital.
The model had claimed she had audio recordings of Russian billionaire tycoon Oleg Deripaska showing a possible link to the Trump campaign. She never released them and its not clear the recordings exist.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-17/model-who-claimed-russian-help-for-trump-detained-interfax-says
She won't be going to Belarus as was reported yesterday.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/17/asia/anastasia-vashukevich-deported-russia-intl/index.html
I am afraid to go back to Russia, she said at the time. Some strange things can happen.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/world/asia/belarusian-escort-deported-thailand.html
GreenPartyVoter
(72,388 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)herding cats
(19,569 posts)Mystery sage
(576 posts)Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)Crap. I was hoping the good guys would spirit her away from Thailand to a safe place.
Damn.
dweller
(23,709 posts)iluvtennis
(19,912 posts)watoos
(7,142 posts)I hope she doesn't suffer.
BigmanPigman
(51,673 posts)while still in Thailand. She didn't want to go back to Russia for fear of being killed. I have a feeling she is going to eat a polonium sandwich.
herding cats
(19,569 posts)She gambled with her life and lost.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,180 posts)To get her to the US or at least find a way to get her to Mueller to interview her?
aggiesal
(8,963 posts)Why no effort was made by IQ45's government to get her
in front of Mueller to be interviewed?
I believe you answered your own question.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,180 posts)Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)"Leaving aside Vashukevichs claims, which are currently very far from proven, there are still many questions about Paul Manafort and whether he tried to make contact with Oleg Deripaska while he was also chairing Donald Trumps presidential campaign. (Manafort has since been indicted by special counsel Robert Muellers team, but not in relation to this.)
Deripaska was an old client of Manaforts in fact, the connected oligarch was one of Manaforts first clients in what proved to be a very lucrative line of business in Russia and Eastern Europe. But things went awry between the two they had a falling-out that ended in a lawsuit, with Deripaska claiming Manafort cheated him of millions.
So when the badly indebted Manafort got a high-profile job advising Trumps presidential campaign in March 2016, Manafort saw an opportunity. He emailed his business associate Konstantin Kilimnik in early April about his newly high media profile, writing, How do we use to get whole, and Has OVD operation seen? (These are Deripaskas initials.)
Then in July, Manafort and Kilimnik exchanged emails about Deripaska again, as the Washington Post and the Atlantic reported last year. I am carefully optimistic on the issue of our biggest interest, Kilimnik said. He will be most likely looking for ways to reach out to you pretty soon. Manafort wrote that if Deripaska needs private briefings we can accommodate.
The pairs emails on the topic grew vaguer and more cryptic as the summer continued. In late July, Kilimnik wrote to Manafort, I met today with the guy who gave you your biggest black caviar jar several years ago. We spent about 5 hours talking about his story, and I have several important messages from him to you. This, again, is believed to be about Deripaska, with caviar thought to be code for money.
Kilimnik and Manafort arranged a meeting in New York City to discuss the matter on August 2 Kilimnik wrote that he had a long caviar story to tell and several important messages. They have claimed this meeting was unrelated to the US presidential campaign. (Update: And according to flight records newly reviewed by Scott Stedman, a private jet owned by Deripaska flew in to Newark airport the very next day before departing the US that night. We dont yet know if the oligarch himself was on it.)
Deripaska took the now-infamous yacht trip with Russias deputy prime minister a few days after this.
Manafort, unexpectedly, didnt end up lasting much longer on the Trump campaign he was fired on August 19. But there are still a great many questions about what, exactly, happened between him, Kilimnik, and Deripaska beforehand.
Furthermore, as Navalny points out, Vashukevichs posts provide what had been a missing link in this particular collusion theory. Navalny says in his video that though Deripaska was viewed as close to Putin, many oligarchs are, and the theory always lacked any indication that Deripaska transmits any information to him.
Yet now we know that just days after Deripaska seems to have had a very important conversation with Manaforts associate and sent important messages, Deripaska took a multi-day yacht trip with one of the highest-level officials in the Russian government, in which they discussed politics and the United States.
Special counsel Robert Mueller is surely very curious about the content of those discussions."
kimbutgar
(21,285 posts)orangecrush
(19,666 posts)very sad.