Mike Lynch, regularly described in the UK media as “Britain’s Bill Gates”, was acquitted of fraud charges in a blockbuster US trial earlier this summer. Sources told CNBC on Monday that his wife, Angela Bagares, had been rescued. Italian news agency ANSA identified her daughter as Hanna, 18, who went missing with her father.
Days before Lynch’s disappearance, her co-defendant, Stephen Chamberlain, died Saturday after being “traumatized by a car” while jogging, her attorney, Gary Linzenberg, told NBC News in an emailed statement. Reuters reports that Chamberlain is a former vice president of finance at Autonomy, the Lynch firm at the center of the investigation.
The sailing vacation that ended in tragedy looked like something of a celebration after Lynch was acquitted — as Morvillo and Bloomer, one of Lynch’s U.S. attorneys, testified in his support.
“We are deeply shocked and saddened by this tragic incident. Our thoughts are with all those affected, especially our president Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy, who are among the missing,” Aki Hussain, president of insurance company Hiscox, said in an emailed statement to NBC News.
British cancer charity The Eve Appeal described Judy Bloomer as “a great champion for women’s health and medical research” in a statement emailed to NBC News.
A Clifford Chance representative said she could not comment on or confirm reports of Morvillo’s disappearance. He is a lawyer in New York, According to Company website.
The Coast Guard said in a statement Monday that the ship’s cook had died. It does not provide his nationality. Reuters identified him as Antiguan citizen Ricardo Thomas.
One of the survivors, Charlotte Emsley, 35, told Italian news agency ANSA that she briefly lost her 1-year-old daughter Sophia in the water, but managed to retrieve her and lift her above the waves. until a lifeboat is raised and they are towed to safety.
Built by Italian shipbuilder Perini Navi in ​​2008 and registered in the UK, Bayesian can carry 12 guests and up to 10 crew, according to online specialist yacht sites.
At nearly 250 feet tall, the yacht is the tallest aluminum sailboat in the world. According to CharterWorld luxury yacht charters.
Luca Mercalli, an Italian climatologist and head of the country’s meteorological agency, told Reuters that the storm could involve a waterfall, essentially a cyclone over water, or a more frequent event that does not involve wind circulation.
Storms and heavy rain have lashed Italy in recent days after weeks of scorching heat.
“The sea surface temperature around Sicily was about 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit), almost 3 degrees above normal,” Mercalli said. “This creates an enormous energy source that contributes to these storms.”
Claudio Lavanga reported from Rome and Yuliya Talmazan from London.
