British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah are also missing
Its president Morgan Stanley International, Jonathan Bloomerare among six people missing after their luxury yacht sank off Sicily in Palermoduring a severe storm.
Salvatore Cocina, head of the civil protection agency in Sicily, said Blumer and Chris Morvillo, a lawyer at Clifford Chance, were among the missing. The British tech mogul Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hana, are also missing.
The British-flagged Bayesian, a 56-meter sailing vessel, was carrying 22 people and anchored just offshore near the port of Porticello when it was hit by a tornado in the early hours of Monday, the Italian coastguard said in an earlier statement.
A man, who was the ship’s chef, has been confirmed dead. The coastguard said the missing people had British, American and Canadian citizenship.
Fifteen people were rescued, including Leeds’ wife Angela Bacares, the owner of the boat, and a one-year-old girl who was rescued by her mother.
A spokesman for Leeds, co-founder of Autonomy, a software company that has grown into one of the UK’s tech sector’s brightest businesses, declined to comment.
Survivors said the trip had been arranged by Lynch for his work colleagues.
Lynch, once described as Britain’s Bill Gates, has spent much of the past decade in court defending his name against allegations of fraud related to the sale of his software company, Autonomy, to US technology company Hewlett-Packard against 11 billion dollars.
The 59-year-old was acquitted by a San Francisco jury in June after spending more than a year under house arrest.
Hours after news of the sinking broke, it emerged that his co-accused in that trial, Stephen Chamberlain, had died after being hit by a car while jogging in Cambridgeshire.
Chamberlain, the former vice president of finance at Autonomy, was stricken on Saturday morning and had been placed on life support, Reuters reported. In a statement, Chamberlain’s attorney, Gary Linsenberg, said he died after “fatally hitting” a car while running.
On Monday, rescue divers were trying to reach the Bayesian’s hull, which had a crew of 10 and 12 passengers, according to the Italian coastguard.
Source :Skai
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