World Russia investigation A Belorussian escort who claimed that she had information for special counsel Robert Mueller about Russian efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election has said that she was ordered by Russian security services to stop talking about Kremlin-linked oligarch Oleg Deripaska. Anastasia Vashukevich, who is better known as Nastya Rybka, was brought into the public eye when an anti-corruption activist published videos from her Instagram page that showed Deripaska hobnobbing with a high-level Russian official on his yacht. Rybka and Deripaska were allegedly romantically involved, and the escort claimed that she had 16 hours of recordings in which the oligarch, who is a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, discussed Russian efforts to influence the U.S. presidential election. Her claims were deemed at least somewhat plausible because Deripaska was a longtime business associate of Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort, and because the Treasury Department sanctioned the oligarch for election interference in April. Reports suggested that the FBI had attempted to contact Rybka after she was detained in Thailand last year. Rybka spent nearly nine months in a Thai prison for offering classes in seduction, but she was deported from Thailand on January 17 and was detained in… Read full this story
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