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malchickiwick

(1,474 posts)
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 04:56 PM Feb 2018

Russian model in Thai jail promises to spill Trump-Russia secrets

Source: CNN

(CNN)A self-described Russian "seductress" is asking for US help to escape a "Thai prison" in exchange for information on alleged links between US President Donald Trump and Russia, according to her Instagram account.

Anastasia Vashukevich, who also goes by the name Nastya Rybka, says she's being held in Thailand after being arrested on February 26, along with nine other Russians, in the city of Pattaya for running so-called "sex training" sessions. Rybka has said she's from Belarus but entered Thailand on a Russian passport, a Thai immigration official told CNN.

While on the way to prison in Pattaya, Rybka published a video on her Instagram account begging US journalists to help her.
"I'm ready to give you all the missing puzzle pieces, support them with videos and audios, regarding the connections of our respected lawmakers with Trump, Manafort and the rest. I know a lot. I'm waiting for your offers and I'm waiting for you in a Thai prison," she said.

Rybka has come under the spotlight in recent weeks after the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny published an investigation earlier this month on his anti-corruption foundation website into her connections with some of Russia's richest and most powerful men.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/28/asia/russia-model-thai-prison-trump-claims-intl/index.html



Popcorn anyone?
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Russian model in Thai jail promises to spill Trump-Russia secrets (Original Post) malchickiwick Feb 2018 OP
Sure, right after her afternoon plutonium tea. Canoe52 Feb 2018 #1
You mean bucolic_frolic Feb 2018 #2
Jennifer Lawrence could play her char... localroger Feb 2018 #8
How long 'til she mysteriously contracts Polonium poisoning???? groundloop Feb 2018 #3
Apparently she also knows where Hoffa is buried Major Nikon Feb 2018 #4
Good Luck Firestorm49 Feb 2018 #5
She probably figures her days were already numbered, but by coming forward, Lisa0825 Feb 2018 #6
wonder what the over and under is.... dhill926 Feb 2018 #7
"sex training" sessions left-of-center2012 Feb 2018 #9
How does one post on an Instagram account while on the way to prison? creeksneakers2 Feb 2018 #10
EXACTLY BumRushDaShow Feb 2018 #12
Instagram video Tuesday, apparently shot as she was driven in an open-air police van .99center Feb 2018 #14
Seems credible to me Farmer-Rick Mar 2018 #21
The US won't help her but maybe a "former" US ally will and deliver her to Mueller. n/t rainin Feb 2018 #11
The US could send Stormy in undercover to find out what Natasha knows! Sancho Feb 2018 #13
Isnt she the one who slept with Deripaska on his yacht Qutzupalotl Feb 2018 #15
What a disgusting series of scandals this lunatic in the WH has thrust on America honest.abe Feb 2018 #16
soooooo rtracey Feb 2018 #17
I'm sure a journalist can swing by. Corgigal Feb 2018 #18
Alexei Navalny ties Manafort to Oligarchs and Putin. English subtitles. Marcuse Mar 2018 #19
It's not a good idea Witch Hunter Mar 2018 #20

bucolic_frolic

(43,249 posts)
2. You mean
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 05:03 PM
Feb 2018

there's a global web of Russian "models" for dinner dates for elite businessmen?

Who would suspect such a ridiculous thing?

Firestorm49

(4,036 posts)
5. Good Luck
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 05:07 PM
Feb 2018

I wish her the best, but her time on Earth has now probably been shortened by coming forward.
Putin or somebody's private hire will make this problem go away. I pray not, but she's in a Thai prison - not where I'd ever want to be.

Lisa0825

(14,487 posts)
6. She probably figures her days were already numbered, but by coming forward,
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 05:36 PM
Feb 2018

maybe she'd have a chance of getting protection from US investigators. Last ditch effort to save herself (if it is true)?

I

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
9. "sex training" sessions
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 05:47 PM
Feb 2018

Mem'ries,
Light the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored memories
Of the way we were

Scattered pictures,
Of the smiles we left behind
Smiles we gave to one another
For the way we were

.99center

(1,237 posts)
14. Instagram video Tuesday, apparently shot as she was driven in an open-air police van
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 06:44 PM
Feb 2018
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=.0fd848cdd96a

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 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 Tuesday to back up the claim that she had new information to offer related to the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. A post to her Instagram account showed her sitting on the floor of what was described as a Thai jail cell 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.”


Farmer-Rick

(10,197 posts)
21. Seems credible to me
Thu Mar 1, 2018, 09:46 AM
Mar 2018

She is seen in a video with one of Putin's henchmen or oligarchs. Putin and his raging henchmen love them some girlish prostitutes, just like the raging horney Trump. He and Putin are always sleeping around with prostitutes. It's kind of their thing. They think no one will believe a sex worker.

So, now she is in trouble and wants to sing. She probably has some good info on Putin, I'm not sure she has much on Trump and Manafort. But it's worth a trip to Thailand to find out.

Sancho

(9,070 posts)
13. The US could send Stormy in undercover to find out what Natasha knows!
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 06:39 PM
Feb 2018

Who would suspect a fellow sex expert?

OTOH, Jerad has nothing to do right now...and he's an international expert.

Qutzupalotl

(14,321 posts)
15. Isnt she the one who slept with Deripaska on his yacht
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 07:42 PM
Feb 2018

and said one of her group was going to fuck Navalny and bring him down? Who published a tell-all book using pseudonyms but accurate dates that align with the travels of Deripaska’s yacht?

Sorry, I don’t trust this one. She can stay in prison.

 

rtracey

(2,062 posts)
17. soooooo
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 08:10 PM
Feb 2018

Soooo they let prisoner is Thailand have instagram accounts? are we sure shes not in a Thai restaurant?

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
18. I'm sure a journalist can swing by.
Wed Feb 28, 2018, 08:46 PM
Feb 2018

Why not? Probably won't mean a thing, but free info is free info. Better have receipts and photos dear, plus recordings.

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