Belarusian ‘sex training’ model Anastasia Vashukevich, aka Nastya Rybka, arrested in Russia for prostitution after being deported from Thailand
- Vashukevich pleaded guilty in Thailand to multiple charges, including solicitation, and was arrested on a stopover in Moscow on way to Belarus
- She had previously claimed she had proof Russia influenced Trump’s election, and was involved in scandal involving an oil tycoon and the deputy prime minister
A Belarusian model who claimed she had evidence of Russian efforts to help US President Donald Trump win office was detained at a Moscow airport on Thursday on prostitution allegations, police said. She had just been deported from Thailand after being convicted of participating in a “sex training course”.
Anastasia Vashukevich, known by her pen name Nastya Rybka, had been held for nine months in a Thai prison along with several others after a police raid last February in Pattaya.
She was booked to fly to Minsk, Belarus, but was detained along with three others travelling with her as she changed planes in Moscow, according to her husband and another person who was with her.
In a case that veered between salacious and bizarre, Vashukevich said she had travelled to Thailand after becoming embroiled in a political scandal with Russian aluminium tycoon Oleg Deripaska – a one-time associate of Trump’s disgraced former campaign director Paul Manafort.
She then set tongues wagging by promising to reveal “missing puzzle pieces” regarding claims the Kremlin aided Trump’s 2016 presidential election victory.