A RUSSIAN YouTube coach specializing in seduction, and who has connections to a close associate of Putin, is under investigation. This follows his alarming advice to viewers to “grope women and ask for sex”.

Alexander Kirillov is suspected of encouraging rape after he told men to grab women in the street by the buttocks and insist on sex.

Known online as Alex Lesley, Kirillov, a self-styled “seduction guru,” dispensed this disturbing counsel to his followers on his YouTube channel, which boasts nearly 100,000 subscribers.

Following the depraved remarks, numerous complaints from women reached Russian authorities – claiming they had been harassed by his followers.

Kirillov, who previously made headlines for being embroiled in a political scandal involving a female escort and a close Putin oligarch, currently lives outside Russia.

The political controversy in question was linked to Belarusian escort Anastasia Vashukevich, 35, and Russian energy tycoon Oleg Deripaska.

It came to light after Vashukevich claimed to have evidence that Deripaska and Russia‘s deputy prime minister were part of a Kremlin conspiracy to skew the 2016 US presidential election in favour of Donald Trump.

Vashukevich revealed on Instagram that she had been on Deripaska’s yacht in 2016 alongside the deputy prime minister Sergei Prikhodko when a secret meeting was held concerning the plot.

But both Deripaska and Prikhodko denied wrongdoing.

Following her claims Vashukevich, who known online as Nastya Rybka, was arrested.

At the time of her detention she was in Thailand, where she had been running a bizarre four-day “sex training” class alongside none other than Kirillov.

As part of the “sex seminars” – which participants reportedly paid £1,000 to take part in – the pair claimed they could teach people how to make their partners climax.

They spent nine months in custody – before a Thai court handed them a suspended 18-month sentence for soliciting and running an illegal “sex training course”.

Vashukevich and Kirillov were then deported to Moscow in January 2019 and arrested – but later released.

Upon their arrival back in Russia, shocking footage showed Vashukevich, appearing to have been sedated, struggling as four men pushed her into a wheelchair and then carried her off.

The current controversy came to light last week when at least 10 young women went public saying they had being groped by Kirillov’s fans in Moscow.

Some claimed that the encounters were filmed by accomplices as the men groped them and asked for sex.

Two Russian MPs then complained to higher authorities before the Investigative Committee opened a case against Kirillov.

They said he had “induced his followers to commit illegal acts of a sexual character towards female residents of the capital”.

Two men have already been slapped with 15‑day jail terms for hooliganism following the reports, and a third suspect was remanded in custody in connection with the case against Kirillov.

Twisted Kirillov, a Belarusian, told Moskva‑24 from an undisclosed location that he was not fazed by the allegations.

He said: “If we lived in America or Germany, God forbid, then it could result in serious consequences.

“Thankfully, we are in Russia.”

Billionaire Deripaska, was once estimated to be Russia’s wealthiest man by Forbes, became notorious in the US for his alleged ties to political consultant Paul Manafort.

Manafort was convicted of tax fraud, bank fraud and failure to report foreign bank accounts.

These convictions stemmed from an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.

Deripaska was also previously reported to be tyrant Putin’s “favourite” industrialist.

And the low-profile oligarch also once hosted Lord Peter Mandelson, now the British Ambassador to the US, on his private yacht in Corfu.

But Deripaska was hit by UK sanctions following a response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.