Guilty of Sex Crimes, She Claimed Trump/Manafort Audio

BANGKOK, Thailand -- A Belarusian "huntress girl" and her Russian lover, who together claimed to have evidence of Donald Trump's ex-campaign manager Paul Manafort colluding with Russians about America's election, were detained on arrival in Moscow January 17 after being deported from Thailand because of sex crimes.

The couple were initially arrested with six colleagues in February 2018 near Bangkok. Anastasia Vashukevich -- who calls herself Nastya Rybka -- quickly announced she and her "master" Alexander Kirillov secretly recorded scandalous audio when she was Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska's "mistress" during 2016 and 2017.

Thai authorities jailed the couple for conducting a week-long seminar offering sleazy seduction techniques to foreign men and women who paid $700 each in Pattaya, Thailand's infamously hedonistic beach resort.

Ms. Vashukevich then posted a video online while inside a prison vehicle, pleading with "friends, American press" for help.

She claimed the couple secretly made recordings about "Manafort and Trump and all that buzz around the U.S. elections."

The U.S. State Department, Federal Bureau of Investigation, American Embassy here in Bangkok and others scrambled to determine the veracity of the purported recordings about Mr. Manafort allegedly meeting Russians.

No evidence was made public. Many investigators dismissed the couple as liars.

But Ms. Vashukevich said they feared being murdered in jail or Russia after deportation from Thailand because they knew too many secrets and had angered Mr. Deripaska.

Mr. Deripaska -- one of Russia's wealthiest industrialists who enjoys close links with President Vladimir Putin --employed Mr. Manafort to boost Mr. Deripaska's influence in Washington beginning in 2005.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller investigated Mr. Manafort who was later convicted and imprisoned in 2018 for tax and bank fraud.

In a surprise on January 15, all eight inmates pleaded guilty in Pattaya to soliciting sex and related violations.

"The court found them all guilty of soliciting sex," a judge in Pattaya's Provincial Court said on January 15, according to Agence-France Presse (AFP).

They were sentenced to 18 months imprisonment which was reduced to the time they already endured in jail because they pleaded guilty, The Associated Press reported.

All eight were turned over to Thailand's Immigration Department for custody where they agreed to deportation.

"I will coordinate with the Russian government for their deportation," Immigration Police Commissioner Lt.-Gen. Surachate Hakparn said.

"They are blacklisted from Thailand permanently for conducting bad deeds."

Mr. Kirillov -- also known as Alex Lesley -- and most of the defendants are Russian citizens. Ms. Vashukevich would be sent to her home country Belarus, Lt.-Gen. Surachate said.

Russian authorities however detained the couple and several others when their flight from Bangkok arrived in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.

A woman at the Moscow airport -- who called herself Mr. Kirillov's wife Kristina -- told AFP she heard the detainees yelling and demanding "why they were being detained."

A Russian law enforcement source said Ms. Vashukevich, Mr. Kirillov, and at least four others were detained at the airport because they had recruited for prostitution, Russia's government-owned TASS news agency reported.

That crime is punishable in Russia by up to six years in jail.

It was unclear if their alleged recruitment for prostitution involved their admission of guilt in Thailand, or earlier sex trysts with various men and women in Russia under Mr. Kirillov's direction which Ms. Vashukevich described in detail in her book.

"This sounds like a pretty bizarre story," State Department Spokeswoman Heather Nauert said last year when the jailed couple announced they wanted to trade incriminating recordings for "asylum" in the American Embassy.

In 2017, Ms. Vashukevich and a handful of other women stripped off their clothes near the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, declaring they "love Harvey Weinstein" for his masculine sexual nature which women should accept.

Ms. Vashukevich also posted photos on Instagram allegedly showing herself with Mr. Deripaska on the oligarch's yacht in 2016 alongside Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko, resulting in a media scandal in Russia.

The slender, 20-something Ms. Vashukevich added sexy selfies and identified herself as "Deripaska's mistress, Alex Lesley's project" on her nastya_rybka.ru Instagram account.

It was still active on Instagram in January with that description.

The latest post was dated March 3, 2018, headlined: "Life without panties" and showed a photograph of a woman sitting on a toilet with her black lace underwear pulled down over black fishnet stockings.

Mr. Kirillov previously authored a book titled, "Life Without Panties."

Other Instagram photos showed Ms. Vashukevich in a Thai jail, and earlier cavorting semi-clad or naked in plush hotel rooms and elsewhere.

In her 250-page book, "Who Wants to Seduce a Billionaire?" Ms. Vashukevich described luring Mr. Deripaska into joining her in threesomes with other young women on his yacht near Norway in 2016 while she secretly communicated via Wi-Fi with Mr. Kirillov.

"There I was, making an audio recording of a top billionaire with a reputation as a decent family man, whose private life half the world would love to know about," she wrote.

"I recorded myself having sex with the billionaire and sent it to Alex."

She also wrote about the sexual boorishness of a "Deputy Prime Minister."

"Record the conversation," Mr. Kirillov commanded Ms. Vashukevich via her iPhone, according to her book.

"I'll listen to them speaking and tell you what I think about them and your communication."

Her book and online photos were used by an anti-Putin Russian opposition activist, Alexi Navalny, in a video he posted in February 2018 on YouTube and Instagram alleging possible bribery among the two Russian men.

Mr. Navalny's investigators interviewed Ms. Vashukevich and Mr. Kirillov who confirmed her book was about Mr. Deripaska and Mr. Prikhodko.

Mr. Deripaska then told a Russian court that Mr. Navalny's video contained "outrageous false allegations."

Russia's internet censor meanwhile demanded its removal.

Facebook-owned Instagram deleted Mr. Navalny's video and some -- but not all -- of Ms. Vashukevich's posts, but they remained on Google-owned YouTube.

The billionaire later sued the couple in Russia and won.

Ms. Vashukevich's book was "dedicated to my shy billionaire" and includes chapters describing "Meeting Him and Having Sex," "I Begin to Seduce Him," plus "Instructions on blow jobs" and "The sex with another girl trick."

The couple's credibility was questionable because they boasted about the power of "trick-talking" -- deceiving and lying to control people.

Mr. Kirillov prided himself for creating a handful of other dangerous, manipulative, alluring young women to fool unsuspecting "targets" in several countries to have sex, fall in love and confess their personal lives, Ms. Vashukevich wrote.

The Moscow-based group's partner-swapping and "games" combined enthusiastic sensualism plus sexual and emotional role-playing, threesomes, voluntary bondage, spanking, and other "domination and subjugation."

She described Mr. Kirillov making love to his "harem" of "huntress girls" who are "fun, beautiful, and always happy."

In response, he awarded Ms. Vashukevich a graduation certificate in 2016.

'"Give it to me, you slut,' Alex whispered in my ear," when she was "naked and lying underneath him," she wrote. "I had threesomes with Alex."

In the book, Kirillov wrote:

"The Huntress plays for real. She might hate someone, but if she has to love him, she will fall in love with him and make him fall in love with her. Then she'll switch back to another identity and [have sex with] him!"

"Men are not the Huntress's aim. The Huntress's aims are training, self-improvement and leveling up. A man is just a piece of meat, a resource, no matter who he is, and no matter how much she loves him.

"If he has a small penis, say: 'Great, I love small penises!' If he has a big penis, say: 'I hate big penises, I prefer small ones'. Love him because he looks at other women.

"Love him for his rudeness and cruelty. And scorn him if behaves like a gentleman. Encourage his bad habits and bring out the bastard in him, so that he can break out of his boundaries.

"Let him DO ANYTHING HE WANTS from day one. If he wants to put his hand up your skirt, encourage it with a smile, show him that he can," Kirillov wrote.

He later described himself as a "rival" to Putin.

In Bangkok, a blonde, 21-year old Ukrainian woman -- one of the group's attractive "seducers" -- said she enjoyed sex with Kirillov.

"I think I love him."

In a 2018 interview, she gave her name but asked to be identified as Misha and provided an English-language edition of Ms. Vashukevich's book.

"Nastya [Ms. Vashukevich] is my close friend. Alex is my trainer. I know them for almost one year and a half already. I'm going to do anything possible to help them."

Asked why Ms. Vashukevich wrote the book and uploaded photos of Mr. Deripaska, Misha replied:

"This book and all the pictures she posted on the Instagram was for Deripaska. It's just a part of his seduction," Misha said.

"She loved him very much. She told me.

"Nastya helped him even to get some other girls to his bedroom. That's the thing. Like, it's OK if she loves a person. She can do anything for that person.

"Nastya made him more even naughty. She fulfilled his desires and let him do this. He fell in love with her," Misha said.

"When you are at some stage of seduction, 'huntresses' as we call ourselves, or 'seducers'...want feedback or a report on how we seduced our victim. In the case of Deripaska, we, Lesley [Kirillov] had to be sure Deripaska would know about her review.

"Nastya presented this book to him. It was a gift from her to him," Misha said.

"After this and what happened, he will never forget her."

Ms. Vashukevich also posted photos on Instagram of herself partially nude cuddling Kirillov in bed.

"Alex and Nastya, they are in love. He is her trainer, her lover, her friend, her supporter," Misha said.

The "possessive" Deripaska became "jealous," Misha claimed.

Richard S. Ehrlich is a Bangkok-based journalist from San Francisco, California, reporting news from Asia since 1978 and winner of Columbia University's Foreign Correspondent's Award. He co-authored three non-fiction books about Thailand, including "'Hello My Big Big Honey!' Love Letters to Bangkok Bar Girls and Their Revealing Interviews," "60 Stories of Royal Lineage," and "Chronicle of Thailand: Headline News Since 1946." Mr. Ehrlich also contributed to the chapter "Ceremonies and Regalia" in a book published in English and Thai titled, "King Bhumibol Adulyadej, A Life's Work: Thailand's Monarchy in Perspective." Mr. Ehrlich's newest book, "Sheila Carfenders, Doctor Mask & President Akimbo" portrays a 22-year-old American female mental patient who is abducted to Asia by her abusive San Francisco psychiatrist.

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