Best Prostitutes In The World? Russian Sex Workers Are Great, Putin Claims Amid Alleged Hacking Scandal

Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed allegations against U.S. President-elect Donald Trump that suggested that the 70-year-old billionaire had solicited prostitutes in Moscow, while adding that “they are of course also the best in the world. But I doubt Trump took that bait."

Putin’s statements were delivered on Russian state television on Tuesday where he also claimed that the unsubstantiated allegations were orchestrated to question the legitimacy of the U.S. election results.

“People who order fakes of the type now circulating against the U.S. president-elect, who concoct them and use them in a political battle, are worse than prostitutes because they don’t have any moral boundaries at all. ... It highlights a significant degree of degradation of political elites in the West, including in the United States,” Putin said, according to Bloomberg.

His comments were a reference to the ongoing row that began last week when an unverified document that was leaked by BuzzFeed News claimed that the Kremlin had “compromising” information on the president-elect. The document believed to have been compiled by retired British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, also circulated within the political and intelligence groups in Washington before being officially presented to Trump and President Barack Obama.

Part of the allegations in the unverified document suggests that Trump had hired prostitutes to perform a "golden shower," on a bed that Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, had previously slept in at a luxury Moscow hotel. The sex act is defined as the practice of urinating on another person for sexual pleasure.

Putin dismissed the claims of the unverified documents, adding that Trump is “a grown man, and secondly he’s someone who has been involved with beauty contests for many years and has met the most beautiful women in the world. ... I find it hard to believe that he rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world.”

He also cast doubts on the motivation that would propel Russian intelligence agents into action to collect such information. "When Trump came to Moscow, he was not a political figure, we were not even aware of his political ambitions. ... Does somebody think that our secret services are chasing every American billionaire? Of course not. It is utter nonsense," he said, according to BBC.