Italian Prosecutors who have opened up a criminal probe into multiple manslaughter and negligent shipwreck think the 56-meter (184-foot) yacht, the Bayesian, may contain\u00a0highly sensitive data\u00a0tied to\u00a0a number of Western\u00a0intelligence services, four sources familiar with the investigation and salvage operation said. <\/p>\n
Lynch\u00a0was associated\u00a0with\u00a0British, American and\u00a0other intelligence services\u00a0through his various companies,\u00a0including the cyber security company\u00a0he founded,\u00a0Darktrace. <\/p>\n
That company\u00a0was\u00a0sold to Chicago-based private equity firm\u00a0Thoma Bravo in April. Lynch,\u00a0whose wife\u2019s company Revtom Limited owned the vessel,\u00a0was also an adviser to British prime ministers David Cameron and Theresa May on science, technology and cyber security during their tenures, according to British government and public Darktrace records. <\/p>\n
Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, American attorney Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda, British banker Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy,\u00a0and\u00a0the yacht\u2019s onboard chef Recaldo Thomas died when the ship sank in a\u00a0violent storm\u00a0in the early hours of the morning. <\/p>\n
Preliminary results from\u00a0autopsies suggest that the Bloomer and Morvillo couples died of suffocation or \u201cdry drowning\u201d when the oxygen in an air bubble in a sleeping cabin ran out. Autopsy results for Lynch and his daughter were less clear. <\/p>\n
The chef, whose body was found outside the vessel, died\u00a0by\u00a0drowning, the coroner said. Toxicology reports on the dead have not yet been released, but none had suffered any physical injuries when the boat went down. <\/p>\n
Lynch\u2019s wife Angela Bacares and 14 others survived, including the captain James Cutfield, who, along with a\u00a0deckhand\u00a0and the yacht\u2019s engine room manager, is under investigation for multiple manslaughter and causing a negligent shipwreck. They have all been allowed to leave Italy. <\/p>\n
Morvillo represented Lynch when he was acquitted in a criminal fraud case in the US in June tied to the takeover by Hewlett Packard of his software company Autonomy, and\u00a0survivors told investigators that\u00a0the cruise was a celebration of that acquittal, according to the\u00a0assistant prosecutor, Raffaele Cammarano. Though Lynch was acquitted of any criminal wrongdoing in the US, Hewlett Packard has indicated it will not drop its bid to collect a $4 billion civil payout from Lynch\u2019s estate, awarded by a British court in 2022. <\/p>\n
The Bayesian sank a few hours before Chamberlain died in the hospital, his lawyer said. Lynch would not have known of his partner\u2019s death, and Chamberlain was in a coma so would not have known about the shipwreck, Chamberlain\u2019s legal counsel said. <\/p>\n
Local prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio said no personal effects, including computers, jewelry or Lynch\u2019s hard drives had been recovered from the vessel. However,\u00a0the onboard hard drives and surveillance cameras tied to the yacht\u2019s navigation system have been brought to investigators to determine if there is any usable data that might\u00a0indicate\u00a0how the yacht sank within 16 minutes of the storm hitting. The vessel did not have a traditional black box or voyage data recorder to record navigation data or audio on the bridge. <\/p>\n
After divers complete\u00a0surveys of the wreck this week, they will make suggestions for how to best raise the 473-ton\u00a0vessel without spilling any of the 18,000 liters of oil and fuel still onboard,\u00a0and how to make sure any sensitive data does not fall into the wrong hands. The costs of raising the ship will fall to its owner, Lynch\u2019s widow, as is mandated by Italian maritime law. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Italian Prosecutors who have opened up a criminal probe into multiple manslaughter and negligent shipwreck think the 56-meter (184-foot) yacht, the Bayesian, may contain\u00a0highly sensitive data\u00a0tied to\u00a0a number of Western\u00a0intelligence services, four sources familiar with the investigation and salvage operation said. Lynch\u00a0was associated\u00a0with\u00a0British, American and\u00a0other intelligence services\u00a0through his various companies,\u00a0including the cyber security company\u00a0he founded,\u00a0Darktrace. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}