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A Russian oligarch's mistress arrested for carrying out sex training sessions in Thailand claims she has audio recordings that link Kremlin meddling in United States elections.

Speaking from Bangkok, escort Anastasia Vashukevich said she would hand over the recordings liking Donald Trump's government but only if the United States granted her asylum.

She faces criminal charges and deportation to her home of Belarus after being accused of working in Thailand without a visa at a sex-training seminar in the city of Pattaya.

Vashukevich was one of 10 kinky instructors arrested and thrown into jail in Pattaya, last month when police were called to an Ibis hotel by staff over strange noises coming from a conference room on Sunday, February 25.

More than 30 Russian tourists had paid £450 to take part in the course - and watched male and female instructors demonstrating how to make their partner climax.

(Image: nastya_rybka.ru/Instagram)

After being moved to the Immigration Detention Center in Bangkok Vashukevich, along with Alexander Kirillov, who organised the sex seminars, spoke to the New York Times.

She said she had more than 16 hours of audio recordings could help shed light on Russian meddling in United States elections.

Vashukevich, who described herself as close to the Russian aluminum tycoon Oleg V Deripaska, said that audio recordings she made in August 2016 included discussions he had about the United States presidential election with people she declined to identify.

Vashukevich, who also goes by the name Nastya Rybka, claims to have had an affair with Mr Deripaska, who used to employ donalds Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort.

“If America gives me protection, I will tell everything I know,” Vashukevich said on Monday.

(Image: nastya_rybka.ru/Instagram) (Image: nastya_rybka.ru/Instagram)

“I am afraid to go back to Russia. Some strange things can happen.”

Her claims appear to be backed-up by a 25-minute video investigation posted last month on YouTube by the Russian opposition figure Aleksei A. Navalny, which relies heavily on videos and photographs from Ms. Vashukevich.

She was previously accused of attacking Thai police when they raided an 'advanced lovemaking' course.

Vashukevich, dressed in a white and black patterned dress, was not impressed when the officers burst in and launched her own attack on the cops.

In a video she appears to have filmed while sat in an open-air police van, after being arrested.

She later posted to her Instagram account saying: "I am the only witness and the missing link in the connection between Russia and the US elections — the long chain of Oleg Deripaska, Prikhodko, Manafort, and Trump.

"In exchange for help from US 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."