Tech tycoon Mike Lynch, one of six people missing from a sunken yacht off Sicily, had been trying to move past a Silicon Valley debacle that had tarnished his legacy as an icon of British ingenuity.
Lynch, 59, struck gold when he sold Autonomy, a software maker he founded in 1996, to Hewlett-Packard for US$11 billion ($16.34 billion) in 2011. But the deal quickly turned into an albatross for him after he was accused of cooking the books to make the sale.
The fraud allegations resulting in Lynch being fired by HP's then-CEO Meg Whitman and a decade-long legal battle. It culminated with him being extradited from the UK to face criminal charges of engineering a massive fraud against a company that shaped Silicon Valley's zeitgeist after starting in a Palo Alto, California, garage in 1939.
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