At the end of the summer – a mysterious incident off the coast of Sicily ended with the death of “British Bill Gates”, BNT recalls.
Tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, 59, died along with five other people after the superyacht on which Lynch was celebrating his acquittal in a multibillion-dollar fraud case sank.
On the megadeal for the sale of his company "Autonomy” Lynch was facing up to 20 years in prison on charges that he falsified his sales to overcharge the company. However, his acquittal also came as a surprise. On the same day that the yacht sank, one of the other defendants in the Lynch case - died in an accident in the Cambridge area of Britain. Reports were that the man was hit by a car while jogging. However, it is not clear if there is anything in common between the two incidents. How did the super-luxury yacht that the millionaires sailed on sink? What does the investigation say to date - says Rumen Mihailov from Italy.
"The incident is becoming more complicated and the media in Italy, Great Britain and France are giving it more and more attention. One of the headlines in the Italian newspapers is "Underground business or how many secrets sank with an ultra-luxury yacht, the truth sank". Prosecutors in Palermo have charged three people - the yacht's captain James Cutfield, engineer Tim Purper Eaton and seaman Matthew Griffith - with possible manslaughter in connection with the shipwreck. The captain is under investigation as to why he did not take measures to take the yacht to safety in view of the approaching storm.
Also, when the storm begins, he brings the entire crew on deck, but the five main passengers are left in their cabins. The accusations against the on-board mechanic are that he left open the hatch where the yacht's auxiliary boat was inserted and from there the water entered and immediately flooded the yacht's generators, which did not produce the necessary current and consequently all the security systems were blocked. The sailor did not send a signal with a rocket when the storm hit the yacht, but did so 35 minutes later, when the crew had already been rescued and several of the passengers were in a lifeboat," said Rumen Mihailov.