A luxury superyacht , leaving six passengers, including British tech mogul and members of his close circle, missing. They were gathered to celebrate Lynch's recent victory in a protracted legal battle. Lynch was cleared of charges in a US fraud case in June and was reportedly aboard the Bayesian with some of those who supported him throughout the trial.
Reid Weingarten, a member of Lynch's legal team who wasn't present, stated that the . Here are the individuals who are currently . Software entrepreneur and his daughter, Hannah, are among those being searched for by police divers after the yacht was hit by a waterspout near Porticello, close to Palermo.
A representative for Lynch reported no updates on Tuesday. Lynch had been attempting to move beyond a Silicon Valley scandal that had marred his reputation as a symbol of British innovation. A Cambridge-educated mathematician, Lynch made his name with Autonomy, a company that developed a search engine capable of sifting through emails and other internal business documents to assist companies in finding crucial information more swiftly.
Autonomy's consistent growth in its first decade led to and earned him one of the UK's highest honors, the Office of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2006. Lynch, 59, sold his company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard for a whopping $11 billion in 2011. However, the deal quickly soured when he was accused of manipulating financial records to facilitate the sale.
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