Moscow Court To Consider Pre-Trial Restraint For 'Sex Coaches' Lesley, Rybka On Saturday

A Moscow court will consider the investigators' petition on the pre-trial restraint for Alexander Kirillov (known as Alex Lesley) and Anastasia Vashukevich (known as Nastya Rybka) on Saturday afternoon, the spokeswoman for Moscow's Nagatinsky court told Sputnik on Friday

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 18th January, 2019) A Moscow court will consider the investigators' petition on the pre-trial restraint for Alexander Kirillov (known as Alex Lesley) and Anastasia Vashukevich (known as Nastya Rybka) on Saturday afternoon, the spokeswoman for Moscow's Nagatinsky court told Sputnik on Friday.

"According to the prosecutor's office, Vashukevich and Kirillov will be brought to court tomorrow, by about 2 p.m. The materials will also be received tomorrow," spokeswoman Viktoria Belova said, noting that the essence of the investigation's petition will also be known tomorrow, when the materials arrive at the court.

According to Vashukevich's lawyers, the two are now held in Zyablikovo district detention facility.

The criminal case against Vashukevich and Kirillov was initiated last year at the request of two young women, Vashukevich's lawyer Dmitry Zatsarinsky told Sputnik.

"I know that two citizens who filed a statement to police, accuse a group of persons, including Alex Lesley and Nastya Rybka, of involving them in prostitution. The case was initiated last year," Zatsarinsky said.

Prior to that, the Moscow Interior Ministry headquarters said that Vashukevich, Kirillov and two other persons, a man and a woman, which had been detained at Sheremetyevo, remain in custody.

They are suspected of having committed a crime under Russian Criminal Code article 240.2 about involvement in prostitution as part of a group of people. The maximum penalty under the article is six years in prison.

Rybka, Lesley, and five more Russians and Belarusians who became involved in the high-profile case of illegal "sex training" were deported from Thailand to Russia on Thursday. Another person involved in the case remains in the temporary detention center of the Bangkok immigration police and will be deported in the coming days, Vladimir Pronin, head of the consular department of the Russian Embassy in Thailand, told Sputnik. On January 15, Rybka, Lesley and six other Russians and Belarusians pleaded guilty to all counts, after which the court of Thailand sentenced them to probation and opened the way for their deportation to the countries of their citizenship.

Lesley, Rybka and the other accused were detained at a hotel in the Thai city of Pattaya last February for illegally organizing sex training. The charges were later lifted by the court following amendments to the country's legislation. However, the detained later faced new charges of organizing a criminal group and providing sex services as part of that group.