At least that what RIA-Novosti is reporting, reflecting on a report by the head of the presidential comptroller office, as the report calls it; basically, it's the internal auditing department. The report cited one example, the cost of fill materials and the fact that the price has more than doubled for the sand and rocks required for the build over the last year. Best I can tell from poking around the internet is that a full report is due to vice president Putin by the end of the month, at least according to Caucasian Knot which, admittedly, is not a non-partisan source.
All of this is, no doubt, part of what is now a very public effort by the government to appear to be rooting out corruption, both in Sochi and elsewhere in Russia. Though, one has to wonder why it has taken this long to figure out considering, well, you know, Olympstroy is a government-created entity so, presumably, somebody in the Russian government was filling out the purchase orders. But, hey, it's hard to find good help these days.
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