Arkady Ukupnik

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**Arkady Ukupnik** is a Russian MMS racing driver competing under an Emirati license, oligarch and globally wanted corporate embezzler. He races for Onyx in MMS F1 S5.

## Early Life

Arkady Anatolyevich Ukupnik was born to a middle class family in Yekaterinburg, Russia. His father Anatoly worked as a mechanic and his mother Yelena worked as a carpenter. At the age of 8, a DNA test uncovered Ukupnik's biological ties to an influential Russian oligarch, placing him as the first in line to inherit his belongings and wealth, including approximately 50 billion rubles. The oligarch died when Arkady was 16, the wealth he inherited allowing him to kickstart his racing career.

## Racing Career

### F3000

After winning the Russian Karting Championship, Ukupnik used his wealth to put together a F3000 team of his own. Ukupnik Motorsports entered F3000 as the best funded team by far, yet the results were awful. The team wasn't able to score a single point all season, failed to qualify for three races and could barely finish in the races it did start, only managing 3 race finishes throughout the season. Despite this extremely successful season, Ukupnik Motorsports decided to compete in the following season. The results improved massively, with the team scoring points for the first time in its two-year history. Ukupnik finished 13th in the standings with 4 points to his name.

### MMS Formula 1

After his successes in F3000, Ukupnik decided it was time to take the step up to Formula 1. He joined the Lotus team for Season 1, driving alongside Shoji Riju. Ukupnik put in respectable performances throughout the season, though he failed to qualify for the Monaco GP. His best result came in the United States Grand Prix, where he scored his only points of the season with a 9th place finish. Ukupnik ended the season with 2 points to Riju's 1, beating Riju in the standings and putting him in a good position to move up to better teams. However, just as things seemed promising, he disappeared.

## After Disappearance

After Ukupnik's disappearance, some of the executives in his companies started spreading rumours of Ukupnik embezzling large amounts of money from some of his biggest companies, likely to fund his racing career. The situation gained momentum and grew bigger until a few months after Ukupnik's disappearance, an FSB raid on his home in central Yekaterinburg discovered his own personal records of massive embezzlement from the companies he fully owned or owned parts of, totalling up to almost 120 billion rubles. A massive police search was launched shortly after in Russia and many other countries, such as the USA, UK, France, China and India. However, Ukupnik and any traces of him seem to have disappeared into thin air. With no tracks of Ukupnik to speak of, many countries have abandoned their searches, although Russia is still hunting him.

After his disappearance, many rumours and stories have surfaced about him, from living in a remote village in the Amazon rainforest to being a member of parliament in Canada under the fake name of Anthony Underwood. He is currently believed to be living a lavish life in a huge mansion in the UAE under the pseudonym "Arqadi al-Ukupnik IV".