Nastya Rybka and Alex Leslie will remain in Thai prison until next year

On Friday, the Pattaya Provincial Court court rejected the passage of the fishing of the fish (Anastasia Vyukevich) and Alexei Leslie (Alexander Kirillov), the heroes of the investigation of Alexei Navalny about Oleg Deripaska, about the departure on bail before the court, the lawyer of the detainees of the detainees Nathan Finch from the company Thailandbail told Tallandbail . The main hearings are scheduled for January 15-18, the verdict for the Russians can be issued in February, he says. All eight detainees, including Vashukevich and Kirillov, deny their guilt.

Details

• The amount of the deposit for each of the detainees was supposed to amount to 300 thousand baht, that is, a little more than 1.2 million rubles for two, follows from court documents (is at the disposal of The Bell). Another Thailandbail lawyer gave a personal guarantee that the defendants would come to court. The judge explained the refusal that the defendants are foreigners and could leave the country before the sentence. According to Finch, the defense intends to challenge this decision in two weeks in the Court of Appeal, increasing the amount of the pledge.

• The defense requested an official confirmation of the Russian consulate in Thailand that Kirillov would not release a new passport (if the defendants would be sent on bail, the court should take their passports). Also in the name of Vashukevich and Kirillov for a long time they rented a house in Patay and secured a letter from his owner - this should become another proof that they are not going to leave the country. It is impossible to provide all these documents in the court of first instance under Thai laws.
• Earlier, Vasukevich was already trying to get secured by 120 thousand baht (about 250 thousand rubles), Finch says, but also received a refusal. For Kirillov, today's petition for the pledge was the first in the new composition. The detainees of Russians are accused under three articles of the Criminal Code - the organization of sexual services, the organization of a secret community and a conspiracy. The defendants may face up to 20 years in prison. The Bell wrote about this in July. Prior to this, Kirillov and Vashukevich were accused of illegal work in Thailand.

The story of the detention

• Why the fish, Leslie and eight more participants in the training - conducting such events in Thailand for years - ended up in prison, is still unclear. According to the prosecutor's office, the complaint against them was written by the 61-year-old police lieutenant colonel Tanapol Bunnark (pol.lt.col.thanapol Bunnark)-he learned about trainings from local media.
• Also in the detention protocol, a certain “foreign informant” is mentioned, which allegedly decided to undergo training and was dissatisfied with the results. It was he who, a few minutes before the detention, told the police that they could "enter."
• As two close Lesli's loved ones told The Bell, five to ten minutes before the detention both he and the fish received several SMS from unknown numbers. The messages were written in Russian and boiled down to the fact that the sex trainers did not want “in a good way” and now “they will pay”. Who sent these messages is unknown.

Member of the detention

• In the video of the detention of fish and Leslie (8:14), it is noticeable how dressed in black shorts and a T -shirt with the image of the skull enters the hall where the training was held, along with the police and simply watches what is happening. “After a couple of minutes, this man went to Leslie, introduced himself as an interpol employee and said that the guys had big troubles. After that, he did not appear, ”said Grigory Kogan, a close friend of Leslie Grigory Kogan, who was present at Thai training.
• This man is the Australian Douglas Schristj, who was a witness at once on several resonant matters in Thailand, not related to the Russians. His personality The Bell was confirmed by the Thai lawyer Donlavat Chaisikha, who acted as a defender in one of the affairs where Schriste was a witness.
• In particular, the Australian witnessed in the loud business of the murder of one of the members of the Australian cell of “Angels of Hell” Wayne Schneider, which the world media wrote about - The Guardian , BBC , Reuters . At the end of 2015, two months after Schneider arrived in Thailand, he was found killed 30 km from the luxurious villa he leased. The main suspect was another Australian - Antonio Bagnato. In 2017, the Thai court found Bagnato guilty of the murder and sentenced him to the death penalty. However, subsequently, the punishment was replaced by three years of imprisonment, the source close to the course of the investigation told The Bell. The Schubridge present, present during the detention of the fish, was a witness in this case. He also acted as the main witness of the accusation of the investigation of the smuggling of 500 kg of methamphetamine, a source close to protection in this case told The Bell.
• What is the role of Schriste in the history of fish and Leslie is still unclear. The list of witnesses on both sides (The Bell has) does not have a furrier.

Time-line

• February 8, 2018. Nastya Rybka and Alex Lesli became known to the general public - thanks to Alexei Navalny, who published an investigation into fish on the yach of billionaire Oleg Deripaska (No. 19 according to the version of the Russian Forbes, the status assessment is $ 6.7 billion) as the head of the government of the government of Sergei Prikhodko.
• February 10. Deripaska filed a lawsuit against the fish and Leslie about the protection of honor and dignity to the court of his hometown-Ust-Labinsk. The next court in the case should be held on July 9: on June 18, the consideration of the claim was postponed "in connection with the satisfaction of the application [plaintiff] on the re -notification of the defendants."
• February 25. Fish, Leslie and eight more people were detained during a sex training in the Pattaya IBIS Hotel. At first they were accused of illegal work, then visa was canceled, and then new charges were brought. Only two managed to be released since then: they pleaded guilty in illegal work, after which they were deported to Moscow. The rest are still in the Thai Nung-Palai insulator.
• February 27. The fish said that she has 16 hours of “Audio and Video of Materials” about the connections of Russian “deputies” with “Manafort, Trump and the hype around the US elections”.
• April 6th. The US Treasury imposed personal sanctions against Deripaska and associated companies (6 more businessmen and 17 officials were in SDN List with it). The US Department of Finance explained to the Deripaska, among other things, the fact that “he acted directly or indirectly, in the interests of a senior official of the Russian government,” and was also accused “of giving a bribe to a Russian official”. On the first working day after the sanctions, the state of Deripaska decreased by $ 1.6 billion. Later, the head of the US Ministry of Finance, Stephen Mnuchin, emphasized in an interview that the purpose of the sanctions was precisely the businessman, and not his company (although they were also in the sanctions sheets).

Anastasia Stog