Investigators are considering potential homicide as they try to find out what caused the Bayesian superyacht to sink, killing seven people, an Italian prosecutor has said.
Speaking at a news conference on Saturday, Prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio said “behaviours that were not perfectly in order” may have been behind the number of deaths off the coast of Sicily.
British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, 59, was among the seven who died after the superyacht sank in the early hours of Monday.
Tributes pour in for youngest victim; superyacht latest
The others included Morgan Stanley chairman Jonathan Bloomer, his wife Judy, American lawyer Chris Morvillo, his wife Neda, and the yacht’s on-board chef Reclado Thomas.
Mr Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter Hannah was the final body divers recovered on Friday. Her mother and his wife Angela Bacares survived the disaster. Their other daughter Esme was not on board and paid tribute to her sister in a family-released statement.
The family is believed to have organised the trip to celebrate the end of Mr Lynch’s legal troubles.
In July he was cleared of 15 US fraud charges in a case that lasted 12 years and focused on the sale of his company Autonomy to US firm Hewlett Packard in 2011.
Prosecutors claimed he deliberately overstated the value of the firm he founded in 1996. Mr Lynch always denied wrongdoing.
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