Model in oligarch scandal wants to talk Trump to get out of jail

Model Nastya Rybkas has become the center of a spiraling scandal involving a Russian oligarch and government minister on a yacht. (INSTAGRAM)

The “fishy” Instagram model at the center of a Russian oligarch scandal has been caught in Thailand, and says she will give information to the U.S. in exchange for help.

Nastya Rybka was taken into custody by Thai police and was being transferred from a jail in Pattaya to Bangkok, her spokesman Pavlo Yunko told the Daily News Wednesday by phone from Thailand.

Local media said the arrest was over a “sex training course” that Rybka helped run. Rybka is a native Belarussian whose real name is Anastasia Vashukevich, her pseudnoym means “fish” in Russian.

She said in a series of Instagram posts, however, that the arrest was because she recently ran afoul of the powerful oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

Images from her social media, where she now has more than 100,000 followers on Instagram, were used by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to allege a secret 2016 meeting between Deripaska and deputy Russian prime minister Sergei Prikhodko.

One video from Rybka, who Navalny called an escort, showed the two powerful men on a yacht off the coast of Norway discussing issues including former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland.

Rybka was arrested along with others who offered a sex training course in Thailand. (INSTAGRAM)

Beyond the alleged corruption of private yacht trips, Navalny said that Deripaska, who once employed President Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and was reportedly offered briefings by him in 2016, could have served as a link between the campaign and the Kremlin.

The oligarch has denied any connection to meddling in the election whenever his name pops up, and sued shortly after Navalny’s video to have the content taken off the internet because it violated his privacy.

Rybka, meanwhile, enjoyed her rise to fame from the warmer confines of Dubai and Thailand, where she and a group of Russians including “sex guru” Alexey Lesley were holding a sex training course for tourists.

Thai officials say they were arrested for working in the country without permission, though Rybka and her spokesman said that the drive to deport them back to Russia was political.

“The thing is that Nastya and Alex have a lot of information recorded from the yacht where she was and that only she knows,” Yunko, who was not arrested and said he is a U.S. citizen from New York, told the News.

Russian metals magnate Oleg Deripaska has worked with former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.(ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO/AP)

He sent pictures of a letter in broken English from Lesley, real name Alexey Kirillov, to be given to the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok asking for help with the alleged repression of him and Rybka.

"We have photo-video-audio of crimes of Russian government," it reads.

The U.S. intelligence community has previously said that it believes the Kremlin attempted to interfere in the 2016 election with actions including a hack of Democratic emails.

“Don’t give them us, please USA save us from Russia! All this cases are political repressions!,” Rybka had earlier posted on Instagram, where she said from what appeared to be the back of a police car that she was the “missing link” in the Russia investigation.

Many Thai inmates have access to cell phones in jail, and Rybka, in a far cry from her normal sun-drenched snapshots, also posted a picture of herself on the floor behind bars saying that she had become sick.

- ny news