Story By: Anastasia Smirnova, Sub-Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News
The former Belarusian escort who claimed to have evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election has been accused by a pal of stealing a phone and 2,000 EUR in cash.
Anastasia Vashukevich, known on social media by her nickname ‘Nastya Rybka,’ is a Belarusian escort, model and author who, while fearing death in a Thai jail, claimed to have evidence linking Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska and Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko to Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.
At the time, Rybka said that she was close to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin and business links to American consultant Paul Manafort, and had 16 hours of audio recordings from August 2016.
She claimed the recordings included Deripaska discussing the 2016 presidential election with other people, including three fluent English speakers who she believed were Americans.
After she was arrested in Russia, Rybka said she had sent the recordings to Deripaska in August 2018 without making them public, hoping he would be able to gain her release from prison.
In 2018, Deripaska won a legal case in Russia against Rybka for the invasion of his privacy by the public availability of videos and photos of the two of them together.
After she was arrested again in January 2019, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko demanded her release and she was freed straight away.
Rybka said she was warned not to discuss Deripaska while in Russian custody and that her claims about him were intended to save her from death while detained in Thailand.
Now she has gotten into another controversial situation after her gal pal – model Daria Montana, whose name is not reported, has filed her to police for stealing items from her.
Reportedly Rybka has stolen the woman’s phone and 2,000 EUR (1,798 GBP) during a party at a luxurious flat located in one of the skyscrapers on Presnenskaya Embankment in the capital city of Moscow, Russia.
Cops are currently investigating and trying to confirm the allegations made by the French.
It will then be decided whether or not police will start a criminal case once the criminal case is complete.
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