The personal reasons mentioned in the press release issued by Alpine in relation to the resignation presented by Oliver Oakes on Monday could be related to a news revealed today by the British newspaper The Telegraph.
It indicates that William Okes, a 31 -year -old Oliver’s brother, was arrested in the Silverstone Park area last Thursday accused of transferring illicit assets. William exercises as director of Hitech Grand Prix, the team of the categories prior to the F1 that Oker Oakes founded in 2015.
As reported The TelegraphWilliam Oakes was in possession of a large amount of cash, and was put in preventive detention after appearing before the Northampton magistrates court last Saturday.
Oliver Oakes resigned earlier this week, and The Telegraph He informs that “it is believed that Dubai flew after the Miami Grand Prix.” The sudden exit of Oakes scene was a big surprise for the paddock.
Oliver Oakes, Team Principal, Alpine F1 Team
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With a statement in his social networks, Flavio Briatore had categorically denied the insinuations that internal disagreements – mainly the change of pilots between Jack Doohan and Franco Colapinto – were at the origin of the resignation.
“It is a personal decision,” said the former director of the Alpine team in a statement cited in the Briatore publication. “I have decided to step back. Flavio Briatore has been like a father for me, he has always supported me and has given me the opportunity to be in charge of the team.”
Briatore also spoke about it: “OLI and I have a very good relationship and we had long -term objectives. His desire to resign has nothing to do with the team, but is due to personal reasons. In the last 24 hours it has been said that we had different opinions, this is completely false and is far from the truth.”
The matter brought to light by The Telegraph Draw a very different scenario from all the hypotheses that had previously taken body, and could involve the Russian oligarch Dmitry Mazepin, a majority shareholder of Hitech until nine days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Mazepin bought a participation in Hitech in 2016, when his son Nikita landed in the European Formula 3.
