
- British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch was acquitted in June of fraud charges in a landmark trial.
- He was accused by Hewlett Packard of working to artificially inflate the value of his company Autonomy when he sold it to the U.S. tech giant for $11.7 billion in 2011.
- Lynch — once lauded by the U.K. press as “Britain’s Bill Gates” — is now missing after the sinking of a superyacht off the coast of Sicily.