Russia won the rights to host the 2014 Olympics with the help of one of the world's biggest heroin traffickers

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

Gafur Rakhimov, who the head of the Russian bid publicly thanked for helping to secure the Sochi Games, has been accused of being a mafia boss and heroin kingpin.