Anastasia Vashukevich (Nastya Rybka) and Alex Leslie (Alexander Kirillov), deported from Thailand, were detained upon arrival in Russia, told The Bell a relative and one of the detainees’ acquaintances . The detention was also confirmed in an interview with RBC by Kirillov’s wife Kristina.
interlocutors tell us In total, The Bell's , about 10 people were detained immediately after arriving at Sheremetyevo. As one of the detainees reported, after passing through passport control, about seven people in civilian clothes with ID cards of Ministry of Internal Affairs officers approached them and asked to follow them.
Now all the detainees are in a separate room at the airport.
On January 15, a court in Thailand found Nastya Rybka, Alex Leslie and six other people guilty of illegally conducting sex training. They were given a suspended sentence and nine months of actual imprisonment. The defendants in the case had already spent this period in a pretrial prison, so two days later they were deported from the country.
Nastya Rybka and Alex Leslie became famous after the investigation of politician Alexei Navalny about businessman Oleg Deripaska and Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko. The investigation was based on excerpts from Rybka’s book and photographs from her Instagram. Later, the girl’s posts aroused Deripaska’s claims, and through the court he demanded that Rybka remove them.
The Ust-Labinsky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory upheld the claim and ordered the removal of the materials. In addition, he ordered Rybka and Leslie to pay the businessman 500 thousand rubles each.