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A diminutive over a month ago, the 184-foot yacht belonging to tech millionaire Mike Lynch abruptly sank. The boat had been anchored off the coast of Sicily, the place it had been parked for a evening of partying, when an unexpected “freak storm” came up in the waters nearby. Interior 16 minutes, the vessel went down. Lynch, his 18-year-frail daughter, his lawyer, and several others, all drowned as a consequence.
The tragic incident immediately impressed suspicion because of the bizarre timing of the yacht’s sinking. Lynch and his fellow travelers had been aboard the boat to celebrate Lynch’s latest legal victory: the tech government had lately been came across no longer responsible in a decade-spanning fraud case that fervent a multi-billion dollar deal to promote his software company to Hewlett-Packard in 2011. After years of struggling with accusations of fraud related to the deal, a U.S. court docket had—handiest two months sooner than the tragic boating incident—acquitted the tech government of all charges related to the case.
Now, in a twist that is certain to rankle conspiracy theorists, CNN reviews that the yacht, identified as the Bayesian, may contain watertight safes that sustain “trim-encrypted hard drives.” Lynch apparently didn’t belief cloud services and products and, as a consequence, took encrypted drives with him at any time when he went sailing. Those drives, in flip, may “contain highly sensitive data tied to a number of Western intelligence services and products,” the outlet reviews, citing four sources familiar with the local police investigation.
To bolster this argument, CNN stresses Lynch’s excessive-level government connections, noting that he was “associated with British, American and diversified intelligence services and products by means of his various companies” (Lynch was fervent with the cybersecurity industry, which often works hand in glove with government agencies), and in the past, he served as an advisor to a couple of British top ministers, at the side of David Cameron and Theresa May.
Authorities are now attempting to rob and offer protection to the sunken hard-drives. CNN reviews that police are stepping up security and underwater surveillance around the sunken vessel, apparently fearing that it may be targeted by international governments (Russia and China are each mentioned).
It’s an exceedingly outlandish twist to a fable that has already had masses of outlandish twists. Case in level: Stephen Chamberlain, Lynch’s trade partner (and the co-defendant in the lately concluded legal complaints), died the same day that Lynch’s boat sunk. Chamberlain had been struck by a car while jogging on August 17th and succumbed to his injuries two days later. Whereas this may sound treasure one thing straight out of Michael Clayton, it may also legal be a twist of fate. The apparent driver of the automobile that hit Chamberlin is described as having been a 49-year-frail woman who “remained at the scene” after police arrived.
Lynch’s software company, Autonomy, was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $11 billion in 2011. When the deal went by means of, Lynch was serving as Autonomy’s CEO. Almost immediately after the deal went by means of, on the alternative hand, Lynch left the company, and the company’s operations quickly unraveled. He was subsequently accused of inflating the value of Autonomy in the period sooner than it was sold to Hewlett-Packard. Lynch denied these charges and maintained that HP bungled the operations of the company after it was purchased. After years spent in courts struggling with the charges, an American court docket ultimately agreed with Lynch’s fable.
Lynch’s attorney, Chris Morvillo, who helped him accept the case against HP—also died, along with his wife, when the Bayesian sank. The couple had been celebrating the legal victory alongside Lynch.
