Model Imprisoned In Thailand Says Russia Is Keeping Her Locked Up Over Trump Tapes

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A model and escort named Anastasia Vashukevich (aka Nastya Rybka) made claims in March that she has sixteen hours of taped conversations between former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and Russian oligarchs discussing their plans to interfere in the 2016 presidential elections. Now, she says that Thailand is keeping her imprisoned on the orders of the Kremlin, who wants her silenced.

According to a French media source, Vashukevich appeared in court on Monday but was not released from incarceration at that time. As the model and escort was being led back to the police van, she told reporters that the Kremlin was working to keep her there in order to protect President Trump.

‘The Russian government is trying to get us jailed. Why are they trying to prevent us from disclosing to Americans the information we have here in Thailand? Why do they want to hide it from the world and from journalists?’

While the claims of a sex worker and model from Belarus, claims that involve the possible release of taped footage which she has offered in exchange for asylum to the U.S., seem like they would not be taken seriously, Vashukevich’s story has received a lot of attention from mainstream media outlets and U.S. intelligence agencies.

According to The New York Times:

‘The escort, Anastasia Vashukevich, said she would hand over the recordings if the United States granted her asylum. She faces criminal charges and deportation to Belarus after coming under suspicion of working in Thailand without a visa at a sex-training seminar in the city of Pattaya.

‘Ms. Vashukevich, who described herself as close to the Russian aluminum tycoon Oleg V. Deripaska, said that audio recordings she made in August 2016 included discussions he had about the United States presidential election with people she declined to identify.

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Vashukevich, in order to show how credible her claims may be, released one recording on YouTube of Oleg Deripaska (a former employer of Paul Manafort) and Russia’s deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko during a conversation on Deripaska’s yacht. The conversation was regarding U.S. relations with Russia.

Vashukevich claims to have 16 more hours of unreleased tapes in which the two men discussed their plans to interfere in the 2016 presidential elections in coordination with those close to Trump’s campaign. The Washington Post reported in September 2017 that emails between Manafort and Deripaska showed that Trump’s campaign manager was deeply in debt to the Russian oligarch and intended to use his position to eliminate that debt.

‘Less than two weeks before Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, his campaign chairman offered to provide briefings on the race to a Russian billionaire closely aligned with the Kremlin, according to people familiar with the discussions.

‘Paul Manafort made the offer in an email to an overseas intermediary, asking that a message be sent to Oleg Deripaska, an aluminum magnate with whom Manafort had done business in the past…

‘In one April exchange days after Trump named Manafort as a campaign strategist, Manafort referred to his positive press and growing reputation and asked, “How do we use to get whole?”‘

The footage already released by Vashukevich was so serious that the Kremlin is so serious that her YouTube page was shut down in Russia and the Kremlin has threatened to block both Instagram and YouTube entirely in Russia, according to The New York Times. Deripaska has since filed a lawsuit against over her release of the footage, which would be a very effective way to block the release of any more footage she may have.

Featured image via Getty/LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA



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