Kathmandu,

June15,

Russia's President Vladimir Putin reportedly travels abroad with a team of bodyguards who collect his excrement and urine in a suitcase which is carried all the way back to Moscow out of fear that it might reveal too much about his health.

According to a report published in a French news magazine Paris Match, this team of about six or seven security personnel with the Russian Federal Protection Service (FPS) is responsible for accompanying the Russian president to the washroom during his travels, and collect the droppings back to Moscow in a special suitcase, to protect any ‘secret’ about his health from getting leaked.

According to the newspaper, amid intense pressure, Russian embassy staff were asked to maintain "complete secrecy" about Putin.