This story is coming out of the you tube Russia tried hard to block last month, with 6 millions views. Now the videographer who was on that yacht with the oligarch is in custody in Thailand, seeking asylum to the US with claims of audio proof of collusion with 3 “american’s” as of yet unidentified.
NY Times Story
IG Video of her plea
Breaking all over now
Vashukevich, in a video she apparently recorded in the back of a Thai police truck after her arrest, said she could provide evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
She claims to have detailed information about connections between Russian officials, Manafort and Trump — if only someone could get her out of Thai detention.
Her assertion of inside knowledge might be easily dismissed but for a 25-minute video investigation posted last month on YouTube by Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, which relies heavily on videos and photos from Vashukevich.
In particular, it includes video footage from 2016 of Deripaska sailing on his yacht with Prikhodko and a description of their meeting in a book by Vashukevich.
Navalny asserted that the yacht trip was a bribe from Deripaska to Prikhodko and said Vashukevich was one of “several” prostitutes aboard the vessel. In one part of the video, the two men can be heard discussing Russian-U.S. relations.
Washington Post
“I am the only witness and the missing link in the connection between Russia and the U.S. elections — the long chain of Oleg Deripaska, Prikhodko, Manafort, and Trump,” Vashukevich said in a live Instagram video Tuesday, apparently shot as she was driven in an open-air police van through the Thai resort city of Pattaya. “In exchange for help from U.S. intelligence services and a guarantee of my safety, I am prepared to provide the necessary information to America or to Europe or to the country which can buy me out of Thai prison.”
I don’t see the Trump administration moving at all to help this person, but is there a way Mueller can somehow compel her extradition? I’d want to see the hard evidence; she’s given interview to NBC now as well.