The British Bill Gates” is missing after superyacht sinks off Sicily

Mike Lynch is among those missing since Monday after a superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily in a sudden storm.

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00:00The British Bill Gates is missing after a superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily in a

00:04sudden storm. Tech tycoon Mike Lynch and a small group of his financial and legal advisors were

00:10celebrating a recent legal victory after Lynch was found not guilty of duping HP into overpaying for

00:16his software firm. HP had paid $11 billion for autonomy in 2011, only to write down $8.8 billion

00:24of the purchase price a year later. Lynch made around $815 million from the sale and always

00:30denied fraud charges. His wife was among 15 people rescued from the yacht, but his daughter Hannah

00:36is among the six still missing. The same day the yacht sank, Lynch's VP of Finance and co-defendant

00:42in the trial died in a freak coincidence after a car hit him while out running.