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The family, says Mr Mzokov, were simply "kicked out in the street"; his elderly father dragged out of his home by bailiffs. Local authorities refused to negotiate and offered the family no alternative housing.
Mr Mzokov says that the money the family was promised was embezzled by corrupt local officials in the regional governor's office. He also believes that his attempts to push for justice resulted in his employer being pressured to fire him from his job at a delivery business, as well as police harassment.
"They are trying to put me in jail."
Critics of the government insist cases such as this are just the tip of Olympic-related corruption that reaches all the way to a small group of Kremlin-connected businessmen with long-standing ties to President Vladimir Putin.
At an eye-watering cost of some £31 billion – three times the price of the much bigger 2012 Summer Olympics in London – the two-week long Sochi Games are set to be the most expensive Olympics in history. In fact, Kremlin critics have calculated that the Games are more costly than all the previous 21 Winter Olympics combined.
The facts and figures behind Russia's astronomical spending on the Games, as well as the widespread allegations of corruption, have already entered national folklore, testimony to what the liberal politician and Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov calls the "out-of-control, absolutely immoral behaviour of the authorities." Full story...
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The family, says Mr Mzokov, were simply "kicked out in the street"; his elderly father dragged out of his home by bailiffs. Local authorities refused to negotiate and offered the family no alternative housing.
Mr Mzokov says that the money the family was promised was embezzled by corrupt local officials in the regional governor's office. He also believes that his attempts to push for justice resulted in his employer being pressured to fire him from his job at a delivery business, as well as police harassment.
"They are trying to put me in jail."
Critics of the government insist cases such as this are just the tip of Olympic-related corruption that reaches all the way to a small group of Kremlin-connected businessmen with long-standing ties to President Vladimir Putin.
At an eye-watering cost of some £31 billion – three times the price of the much bigger 2012 Summer Olympics in London – the two-week long Sochi Games are set to be the most expensive Olympics in history. In fact, Kremlin critics have calculated that the Games are more costly than all the previous 21 Winter Olympics combined.
The facts and figures behind Russia's astronomical spending on the Games, as well as the widespread allegations of corruption, have already entered national folklore, testimony to what the liberal politician and Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov calls the "out-of-control, absolutely immoral behaviour of the authorities." Full story...
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