Is this the real reason for Oliver Oakes’s resignation to Alpine F1?

The English resigned from his team director the day after the Miami GP, it was speculated that it was about the decision to go down to Jack Doohan and upload Franco Colapinto, but there are other deeper issues.

Oliver Oakes abandoned the Paddock of the hurried Miami GP and after canceling the press at the press. The next day, the English resigned from its position as director of Alpine, while reregarding rumors about a change in the alignment of titular pilots of the team and pointed out that Franco Colapinto would replace Jack Doohan. On Tuesday, a day after his resignation, the Estone team made the exit of the Pope and the Assumption official in the position of Flavio Briatore, who exercised as an executive advisor. The rumor pointed out that Okes opposed the modification in the formation of runners, which was formalized on Wednesday with the statement that reported that the Argentine will run the next five races, starting on Icola.

The Runrún spoke about an alleged confrontation between Briatore and Oakes and that the change of pilots had dynamited everything. “All the news that has come out are completely false,” said the Italian and pointed to personal issues such as the reason for the British resignation. Finally, those reasons were known. As published by the means of Italy, with information from the English newspaper The Telegraph, Oakes’ resignation was motivated by the arrest of his brother William, which occurred in the first day of Miami GP activity.

William Oakes was arrested for transfer of illicit assets and, when sought by the police, he was found in possession of a large amount of cash. William is the director of the Hitech team, who was founded by Oliver, and who had ties with Nikita Mazepin’s family, the F1 Expile. Dmitry Mazepin, Nikita’s father, is a millionaire entrepreneur who is dedicated to the manufacture of chemicals. In 2016, Mazepin bought Hitech and his son began to run in the lower categories. When Russia invaded Ukraine, more strict controls on Russian investments and the European Union imposed sanctions were made. In fact, the Haas team had Mazepin as a pilot and dad’s companies as advertisers and decided to go down to the corridor and close the link with Uralkali.

Hitech actions sold to the Okes in 2022. However, the English deputy Liam Bryne suspected about that transaction and pointed out that the shares were sold without buying. “It does not seem that any money has been paid for this important financial participation. The oligarchs (by the Russian millionaires) were using proxies,” Bryne said. William Oakes declared before a court and said that “he was always part of the strategic plan that Bergton Management left Hitech in early 2022 and that I was the owner of the entire company.”

On Friday, May 2, William Okes, 31, was arrested in the Silverstone Park area accused of traffic of illicit goods. On Saturday 3 he appeared before the Court of the Crown of Northampton and was with pretrial detention. Oliver Oakes, the Telegraph reported, would have traveled to Dubai after Miami’s career.