Note to Self... Do not fuck around with HP...
Mike Lynch, his wife Angela Bacares, daughter Hannah and 19 guests were on the Bayesian superyacht for a "victory" trip celebrating Lynch clearing his name after a lengthy legal battle that saw him extradited to the United States last year to stand trial on fraud charges related to the $11 billion sale of Autonomy, to Hewlett Packard.
After HP took an $8.8 billion haircut on the value of the company within a year, Lynch was accused of conspiring to inflate its value and wire fraud but after a trial lasting three months a jury in a federal court in San Francisco acquitted him and co-defendant Stephen Chamberlain in June of all 15 counts.
It emerged Monday that former Autonomy Vice President Chamberlain was killed two days before Lynch.
The 52-year-old died in a road accident while out running in Stretham, 76 miles northeast of London, in rural Cambridgeshire.
British tech-billionaire Mike Lynch was confirmed by the Italian coast guard on Thursday as being among five bodies pulled from the wreck of the superyacht Bayesian three days after it went down in a storm off Sicily.
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