Body of British tech billionaire Mike Lynch recovered off the coast of Sicily

The assemblage of billionaire tech mogul Mike Lynch was recovered disconnected the seashore of Sicily, the Italian seashore defender announced connected Thursday. Lynch’s 184-foot superyacht, the Bayesian, sunk connected August 19th reportedly aft being deed by a tornado implicit the water, called a waterspout. The yacht sank quickly, according to reports, adjacent though its shaper claimed it was unsinkable.

Lynch was connected the yacht with household and friends celebrating his acquittal connected fraud charges successful June. HP, which bought Lynch’s institution Autonomy for $11 cardinal successful 2011, had alleged “accounting improprieties” that misrepresented Autonomy’s value. In an interview with the BBC — the lone broadcast interrogation earlier the yacht sank — Lynch said his wealthiness helped him woody with the decade-long ineligible battle.

The yacht was deed by a waterspout astir 4 AM section time, according to news reports. Fifteen radical — including a babe — managed to flight connected a beingness raft and were rescued by the unit of the Sir Robert Baden Powell, a Dutch vessel that was anchored nearby. “They were each nether shock,” Karsten Börner, the skipper of the Sir Robert, told the New York Times.

Five different bodies were recovered, including that of Christopher Morvillo, 1 of the attorneys who defended Lynch successful the HP trial. Lynch’s 18-year-old girl Hannah is inactive unaccounted for.

Investigators are looking into wherefore the Bayesian sank erstwhile different boats, including a adjacent sailboat, were mostly unaffected, the AP reports. Börner, the Sir Robert’s captain, told the AP that his vessel besides sustained minimal damage. 

Giovanni Costantino, the CEO of the Italian Sea Group — the institution that owns the Bayesian’s shaper — described Lynch’s yacht arsenic “one of the safest boats successful the world” and said the mishap apt occurred due to the fact that the unit didn’t travel basal information procedures.