Russian plot to assassinate Putin uncovered as secret services hunt agent

05 October 2023 , 06:37

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There is a new alleged plot to overthrow Putin (Image: POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Russian secret services are investigating a plot from "within their own ranks" to assassinate Vladimir Putin, according to a report.

Telegram channel VChK-OGPU, which allegedly has close links to Moscow’s security agencies and law enforcement, said an informant had told them of an "agent" boasting he had been given a "task" to "remove" the dictator. The bizarre claim came at a meeting in karaoke club Honey, in Chekhov, near Moscow, a known haunt of security services operatives, reported the Russian channel.

The supposed agent showed the informant, a 37-year-old construction industry entrepreneur, his service ID card during a "long heart-to-heart conversation about the war and future life in Russia." The informant "did not argue and changed the topic." He apparently became "haunted" after the karaoke club conversation at the threat to Putin and reported it to police, according to the channel.

Honey karaoke club in Chekhov city (Yandex/east2west news)

The channel continued: "The special services have been searching for several days for the unknown person who planned to ‘remove’ Putin. Based on his tip, operatives went to study the situation in the Honey Club, where…you can often meet employees of various [secret] departments."

Warmonger Putin is known to take his security extremely seriously and according to reports, regularly changes locations and travel routes. Russian security services are accused of seeing and dealing with many supposed terrorist plots to justify their effectiveness. In recent weeks Putin has been seen out and about more than in the last few years. He uses his jaunts to justify his war against Ukraine and make attacks on the West.

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Putin is now poised to make an announcement that he will seek a new six-year term in the Kremlin as elections are due in March 2024. He told student participants in the International Financial Security Olympiad in Sochi that he had many admirers in Europe who shared his traditional values. He said: "I want to defend our friends. We have a lot of friends in Europe… People who believe that traditional values, including the family, have died out."

Modernisers in the West "behave very aggressively, particularly in North America and Europe", he continued: "But there are quite a lot of people in European countries who share our values. I’d say a lot. They simply behave more quietly and don’t show off their opinion. That’s why I wouldn’t split everyone. On the contrary, I want to try to unite everyone around our platform."

His defence of traditional family values was met with a backlash. One telegram channel branded him "a divorced man living with his mistress, calling his [adult] daughters ‘one woman’ and ‘second woman’. [He] never showed himself with his children and grandchildren. Again he has said that in the West they are against traditional family values."

Will Stewart