Divers searching the wreck of a superyacht owned by the family of a British tech mogul that sank Monday off the coast of Sicily in southern Italy were working Wednesday to recover the remains of most of the six people left missing after the accident, Sicily’s civil protection agency confirmed to CBS News. Two bodies had been brought to shore in Porticello, near Palermo, and two more were in the process of being brought ashore.
Britain’s Telegraph newspaper reported that the bodies of Mike Lynch, the technology entrepreneur, and his 18-year-old daughter were among the remains recovered Wednesday, but the civil protection chief would not confirm that report to CBS News.
Six people, including Lynch and his daughter, were left missing after the vessel sank in a violent storm early Monday morning. One man, the Bayesian superyacht’s chef, was found dead soon after the boat capsized.
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Fifteen passengers and crew managed to escape the accident, including Lynch’s wife, who owned the vessel.
Along with Lynch and his daughter Hannah, the technology mogul’s American lawyer Chris Morvillo, a former assistant district attorney in New York, his wife Neda, and British banker Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International, were also missing.
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Lynch was acquitted in June of fraud charges in the U.S. that could have landed him in prison for decades. Lynch’s co-defendant in that fraud case, who was also acquitted, died Saturday after being hit by a car while out jogging in England.