Was Putin's car crash actually an ASSASSINATION attempt by foreign agents?
A CONSPIRACY website has suggested a car crash which killed Vladimir Putin's "favourite chauffeur" was, in fact, an attempt to assassinate the Russian President.
Putin's car in head-on smash leaving one dead
Footage released by Russian media shows Putin’s official black BMW speeding down a Moscow highway before smashing into another vehicle in a head-on collision.
The accident was reportedly caused when a Mercedes crossed over from the opposite side of the road without warning
Medics rushed to the scene of the fatal accident on Kutuzovsky Avenue but announced the BMW motorist had died on impact.
The Mercedes driver, who was travelling alone, was taken to hospital in a critical condition.
It is reported the BMW driver, who has not yet been named, had more than 40 years of experience as an official driver.
The clean-up operation took several hours and caused huge traffic congestion after the road was closed because of the crash.
Police confirmed they have launched an investigation, without giving any further details – sparking speculation over the driver’s death.
Mr Putin was not in the car when his favourite presidential driver was killed, prompting conspiracies theories the head of state was being sent a "dramatic and violent" message.
They are focused on bringing down the present government
Pro-Putin conspiracy theory website, the Millennium Report suggested the “audacious threat” to the life of President Putin could only be the work of an inside group of “foreign secret service agents who have proxies operating within Moscow”.
In a report published on the website, titled “Did the neon criminal cabal just send a message to President Vladimir Putin?” they suggested that Anglo-American Axis (AAA) “will stop at nothing to control Russia”.
It said: “The AAA leadership has shown time and again that they are populated by a number of criminally insane psychopaths who will stop at nothing until they have taken back Russia (they owned it once under the rubric of Soviet communism as the USSR).
“Now the misguided cabal wants to take ownership again by way of the capitalistic political economy.
"Through a combination of predatory capitalism, economic sanctions, monetary sabotage, financial terrorism, weather warfare, as well as strategically located unprovoked wars of aggression and jihadi terrorism.
“They are focused on bringing down the present government.”
The claims made by the Millennium Report are unsubstantiated and appear to be politically motivated.
The condition of the other driver involved in the fatal crash is not yet known.
There is no suggestion they were involved in the alleged assassination plot referred to by the Millennium Report.