Belarusian escort Anastasia Vashukevich sits in a van leaving the Immigration Detention Center for an airport for deportation in Bangkok on Thursday. Russian news agencies said that four of the seven people deported from Thailand who arrived in Moscow Thursday were detained, including Vashukevich and Alexander Kirillov, her mentor in the sex training business. In the early stages of their detention in Thailand, the sex training group sent a note to the US embassy via an intermediary seeking help and political asylum. The investigative report featured video from Mr Deripaska's yacht in 2016, when Vashukevich, who has also worked as an escort, was aboard. On Wednesday in Washington, the US Senate narrowly upheld a Treasury Department decision to lift sanctions from three companies connected to Mr Deripaska.

Source: Bangkok Post January 18, 2019 04:52 UTC