Thai Court Gives 'Sex Coaches' Lesley, Rybka Suspended Sentences

A Thai court gave on Tuesday suspended sentences to Alexander Kirillov (known as Alex Lesley), Anastasia Vashukevich (known as Nastya Rybka) and six other defendants in the Thai "sex training" case for providing sex services as part of an organized criminal group, after the accused pleaded guilty to the charges, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Tuesday

PATTAYA (Thailand) /KRASNODAR (UrduPoint news / Sputnik - 15th January, 2019) - A Thai court gave on Tuesday suspended sentences to Alexander Kirillov (known as Alex Lesley), Anastasia Vashukevich (known as Nastya Rybka) and six other defendants in the Thai "sex training" case for providing sex services as part of an organized criminal group, after the accused pleaded guilty to the charges, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Tuesday.

All of the accused have also been given jail time, which has already been fully covered by the nine months that the defendants spent in custody.

The court is now working on the extradition of the foreign nationals to Russia and Belarus.

Following the court's decision, the lawyer of Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska, who sued Lesley and Rybka last year for unauthorized dissemination of his personal photos and videos, told Sputnik that he would step up his activities if the two are indeed extradited.

"If they [Lesley and Rybka] are extradited, then, of course, we will activate [our work]. I would not like to reveal in advance our strategy, what we are going to do, but ... we certainly will [step up our activities]," Deripaska's lawyer, Alexey Melnikov, said.

Melnikov added that all of the videos that violated Deripaska's rights had been already removed from the internet at the order of a Russian court that ruled in Deripaska's favor.

"As for the money [awarded to Deripaska in damages by the court], we are currently in the process of complying with the court's ruling. We have received [the enforcement order], submitted [it] to public bodies, they are carrying it out," the lawyer said.

According to the lawyer, Lesley is currently registered in Moscow, while Rybka has permanent residence in the Belarusian city of Babruysk.

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.

While Lesley and Rybka remained in custody in Thailand, a Russian court ruled in July last year that they must pay a total of 1 million rubles (over $14,900) 500,000 rubles each to Deripaska for publishing photos of the tycoon and secretly recorded conversations on social media without the billionaire's consent.