Jonathan Bloomer, the chairman of Morgan Stanley International, was last night reported to be He was confirmed missing by Italian authorities, according to The Times. Mr Bloomer is a close friend of alongside his 18-year-old daughter Hannah. The vessel is while anchored off Sicily.
Four of the missing passengers are British and two are American, Italian newspaper la Repubblica stated. Mr Lynch’s US fraud trial, which ended two months ago with him saw Mr Bloomer take the stand as he had led the audit committee at Mr Lynch’s firm Autonomy. It was alleged that he had overseen fraudulent accounting at Autonomy that wildly inflated the former FTSE 100 company’s value before it was sold to Hewlett-Packard for $11 billion (£8.
7 billion) in 2011. Mr Bloomer claimed that Mr Lynch had largely ignored Autonomy’s accounting, in evidence which was critical to his defence. Mr Bloomer claimed: “Mike was mostly interested in the strategy, new products, new areas to look at, potential acquisitions.
“For example, he didn’t come to the audit committee and wasn’t particularly interested in the finance side.” According to his Linkedin profile, Mr Bloomer is currently the chairman of insurance provider Hiscox and was the chief executive of Prudential before being ousted in a boardroom coup in 2005 following the dotcom crash. 09:11 PM BST Live coverage ends Our live coverage of the Bayesian’s sinking is now ending.
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