The MP for Portsmouth South, 64, started a defense of his 25-year-old Assistant, Katia Zatuliveter after you a deportation over their alleged links to Russian secret services was published.
But British and European members near Mr Hammond had previously warned his behavior after always suspicious activity of its young employees.
Chris Bryant, labour's former Europe Minister, said he moved to Hancock at the top of cross-party Russian group because of its "pro-Putin and Medvedev Pro position" to replace.
He told the guardian: "a combination of on the delegation to the Western European Union, Council of Europe, its membership of Commons Defence Select Committee and its position as a Portsmouth MP: you can see how he was attractive."
Mr Bryant claimed Zatuliveter - acted as Secretary for the group - walked the vote Mr Hancock saw as Chairman replaced following out in anger.
He said: "I could not understand why a MP from somewhere in the South West had a Russian researcher." It was only really interested, doing things Russia. "It seemed something odd."
Colleagues on the Council of Europe, where Mr Hancock also worked, expressed its concern about Mr Hancock's series of identikit claimed you companions from former Soviet States.
Matyas Eörsi, a Hungarian MEP and former leader of the Liberal Group Council - includes the Lib Dems - said the women were "enter all the same: long-legged, good-looking Blondes, never older than 25, fluent in French, English and German often and with a higher education".
He claimed he Charles Kennedy, who had warned former Lib Dem leader potential "Scandal", about his was members voting record that heavily weighted in favour of Moscow.
He added: "Hancock was surrounded by very young, very beautiful, very attractive Russian and Ukrainian girl." "I don't exclude that a double mandate had these girls."
Mr Hancock said members of the Liberal Group, often young Eastern women to informal lunches brought alone arrived at the other delegates.
A Ukrainian MP said he "publicly had protested" about women presence at a meeting of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), where private discussions take place.
Serhiy Holovaty said: "my demand was banning exceptional"right"for every time our meet Mike a new person of such, bring set" add, for which he suspected, were at the FSB, Russian spy network "connected".
Mr Hancock said he had add taken young women to dinners with ALDE members about six times in a period of 13 years: "you certainly not Wizard from me." "They were people to do the internships at the Council of Europe, or something like that."
He denied that he could claims by Mr. Eörsi, who had to declare all his visits to Russia but said he knows exactly how many trips he made then fell his passport into the sea.
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