Former Lotus F1 team boss Gerard Lopez is under investigation in Luxembourg for forgery and use of forgery related to a money transfer that originated from the Enstone F1 outfit. Lopez and partner Eric Lux, a Luxembourg real estate developer, are the founders of Genii Capital which acquired the Lotus F1 team from Renault Group in 2009. Under the Lotus name, the team competed in F1 from 2010 until 2015, winning two races with Kimi Raikkonen in Abu Dhabi in 2012 and in Melbourne the year after. Lopez eventually took the helm of the Enstone squad as its team principal before Genii sold most of its holdings back to Renault at the end of 2015. But Luxembourg's prosecutors put under scrutiny...
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