You will always have to pay for what you have done. Even if you can hire the best lawyers to escape legal sanctions, you can't escape fate. According to the Daily Economic News, on August 19, the yacht that Mike Lynch, a well-known British software technology entrepreneur, and Jonathan Bloomer, a well-known financial tycoon and chairman of Morgan Stanley International, were on sank in the southern waters of Italy.
Seven people were killed in the incident, including Lynch, his daughter Hannah, Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy Bloomer, American lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda Morvillo, and Kaldor Thomas, who was the chef on the yacht.
According to Cailianshe, citing Italian media reports, the autopsies of the Bloomers and the Movillos have been completed, restoring what happened in the last moments of their lives.
The autopsy results showed that there was no water in the lungs of the four people, indicating that they had suffocated to death before drowning. Divers found the bodies of the four people on the left side of the cabin. Investigators believe that after the ship tilted to the right and sank, the four people tried to find the last oxygen in the cabin and eventually suffocated to death in the carbon dioxide "bubbles". The report said that the current examination results showed that there were no signs of injury on the four victims.
Lynch, 59, is known as the "British Bill Gates". He sold the software business he founded to HP for $11 billion many years ago. The deal was accused of fraud in the United States. HP accused Lynch and other company executives of conspiring to "inflate" the company's valuation before the deal was reached, causing HP to suffer huge financial losses.
Bloomer and Morvillo served as witnesses and defense attorneys for Lynch, who was acquitted in June.
It is worth noting that HP recently stated that it will continue to seek up to US$4 billion in damages from Lynch's estate in the UK.
In its latest statement, HP said that the "judge's ruling on damages" is expected to be announced "in due course" and that "HP intends to pursue the litigation process to the end." According to the Associated Press, if the case is lost, Lynch's widow, as the heir to the estate, may be held liable for compensation. She was rescued in the yacht sinking accident, while their 18-year-old daughter died in the accident.
The New York Times and the Associated Press noted that while it remains to be seen how much compensation HP will ultimately receive, a British judge had previously said that the actual compensation is expected to be "significantly" lower than the amount HP requested.