Nastya Rybka and Alex Leslie released
'15.01.2019'
Source: with the BBC
“Sex trainers” Nastya Rybka and Alex Leslie (real names Anastasia Vashukevich and Alexander Kirillov) spent 9 months in a Thai remand prison and eventually pleaded guilty, although they had previously refused to do so.
The court in Pattaya sentenced Kirillova, Vashukevich and six others accused in the case of illegal sex training in Thailand to conditional sentences and factual detention, equal to the term already served in prison, writes with the BBC.
They were sentenced to 18 months in prison, nine of them the defendants had already served, therefore the judge released the defendants on parole.
The trial began on January 1 and was supposed to last a few days. Even in the morning, all eight defendants declared their innocence, but in the afternoon they unexpectedly declared plea guilty.
According to the consultant for foreign citizens at the Thailand Bail Bar, Nathan Feeney, in the near future, the accused will be deported to Belarus and Russia, whose citizenship they have.
Causes of detention and charges
At the end of February 2018, “sex trainer” Kirillov (Alex Leslie) was detained in one of Pattaya's hotels - the Thai police thought that he and Vashukevich (Nastya Rybka) were working in the country without permission.
Offsite trainings in Thailand are a popular way of doing business in Russia for coaches and trainers; law enforcement officers are very rarely interested in such cases. The students were released, and those who helped organize the training (this is Leslie's follower Nastya Rybka and eight other participants) ended up in a Thai prison.
They were afraid of extradition to Russia and asked for help from the American Embassy - Nastya Rybka promised to convey to the Americans important information about Russia's interference in the US presidential elections, which she allegedly managed to find out during her conversation with Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska.
Vashukevich claimed that she had about 16 hours of audio recordings, indicating that the businessman was allegedly discussing plans for Russia's intervention in the American elections. In exchange for them, the girl demanded political asylum in the United States, but this did not bring any results, and Vashukevich stopped making such statements.
In April, the two defendants were convicted of illegal work in Thailand and expelled to Russia. The rest were toughened up and accused of providing sexual services. In mid-April, the Pattaya City Court sent Kirillov and Vashukevich to the investigative prison, where they spent nine months.
Who are Alex Leslie and Nastya Rybka
The trial of the participants of the sex training began in the summer. Then the defendants denied the charges of pimping. They declared their innocence at meetings in July and August. Now Nastya Rybka and Alex Leslie pleaded guilty in court.
Kirillov is the author of many books on sex play and seduction, he conducts trainings for men and women, where he teaches them to be sexually liberated.
Kirillov is from Vitebsk (Belarus), he studied at a programmer at the Moscow State University. Vashukevich is also a Belarusian citizen. They are considering the possibility of deportation not to Russia or Belarus, but to one of the countries with which Russia has a visa-free regime, told the defendants friend Grigory Kogan.
Instagram schoolgirl Leslie Nastya Rybka and her book about the oligarch's seduction became the starting point of the investigation of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny about possible joint travels of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko and businessman Oleg Deripaska with the girls on the yacht.
Soon after the publication of the investigation, Rybka and Leslie started having problems. Shortly before their arrest in Thailand, Deripaska sued both of them and later sued 1 million rubles ($ 14,9 thousand).
The FBK investigation came out on February 8. It tells about the holiday off the coast of Norway on a yacht, on which there were people like Deripaska and Prikhodko, as well as the author of a blog and a book about seducing billionaires under the pseudonym Nastya Rybka.
Navalny backed up his allegations with Nastya Rybka's Instagram posts, excerpts from her book “Diary on the Seduction of a Billionaire,” as well as data from tracking services. The oppositionist said that he regards the joint pastime of the billionaire and the official as corruption.
Deripaska, in turn, called the FBK investigation "a figment of the imagination of a group of people and one of the manifestations of a planned custom campaign aimed at discrediting reputation."
