Russia won the rights to host the 2014 Olympics with the help of one of the world’s biggest heroin traffickers, says former British ambassador to Uzbekistan

[BlackListedNews]

After the International Olympic Committee voted to award the games to Sochi in 2007, the head of the Russian bid publicly thanked Uzbek businessman Gafur Rakhimov for securing the votes of Asian countries ‘without which…it would have been hard for Sochi to count on the victory’. But according to US officials, Rakhimov is a mafia boss and heroin kingpin who is currently facing criminal charges in Uzbekistan.

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