Belarus ‘sex trainer’ Anastasia Vashukevich, who said she had Trump election secrets, pleads guilty to soliciting in Thailand
- Anastasia Vashukevich will be deported after admitting charges related to a sexual training seminar in Pattaya
- She once claimed to have secret recordings of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska talking about interference in the 2016 US election
A model and self-proclaimed sex trainer from Belarus who claimed last year that she had evidence of Russian involvement in helping elect Donald Trump as US president pleaded guilty on Tuesday in a Thai court, in a case related to holding a sex seminar.
Anastasia Vashukevich will be deported. A lawyer representing Vashukevich said she and seven co-defendants were given suspended 18-month prison terms and fines of 100,000 baht (US$3,135), waived in view of nine months already served since the charges of soliciting and conspiracy were filed against them.
All were arrested in February last year at a hotel in the seaside resort town of Pattaya, where Vashukevich and Russian self-styled sex guru Alexander Kirillov, a co-defendant, were giving sexual training – fully clothed, at least when police and reporters burst in.
They were initially sentenced Tuesday by the court in Pattaya to three-year prison terms, but their sentences were halved because they pleaded guilty, a standard procedure in Thai trials.
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The soliciting charge carried a maximum prison term of 10 years, and conspiracy a maximum penalty of seven years.