The detention of Belarusian escort girl "Nastia Rybka", who had promised revelations about Russia's role in the US elections and was arrested on Thursday in Moscow while she was in transit, was extended on Saturday for three days .
72 hours more. The young woman was to be presented Saturday in court but the hearing was postponed at the request of the prosecutor, who asked 72 hours to study the case while investigators requested that it be held for 30 days in detention. "The court has decided to extend the length of its detention by 72 hours," said Nagatinsky Moscow court judge Natalia Borissenkova, quoted by the Ria Novosti news agency.
Accused of prostitution. Anastasia Vachoukevich, better known as Nastia Rybka, is accused of prostitution. "I am not guilty of what I am accused of," she told the court, quoted by the agency Interfax. She was arrested in February 2018 in the Thai resort town of Pattaya along with nine other foreigners who were conducting "sexual training" classes. Fined Tuesday on a fine, she was expelled from Thailand on Thursday on a flight to Moscow where she was immediately arrested in connection with an investigation into procuring.
"Missing pieces of the puzzle". "Nastia Rybka" was known to have been involved in a political scandal with Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska, close to Donald Trump's former campaign director, Paul Manafort. She claimed to be in possession of "missing pieces of the puzzle" about the Kremlin's help to Donald Trump during his election campaign. During the hearing, she said she did not want to "in any way compromise Oleg Deripaska". "I have enough," she added, according to Interfax.
"Drag outside the transit zone". The young woman's lawyer, Dmitry Zatsarinski, told reporters that the young woman "did not commit any crime" and that she "has nothing to do" with Oleg Deripaska, "let alone with Donald Trump" . On Friday, he denounced the fact that Nastia Rybka had been "dragged out of the transit zone (...) to Russian territory" while she was stopping in Moscow, between Thailand and Belarus.