Stephen Chamberlain, Mike Lynch’s co-defendant in the US fraud trial over the sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard, was critically injured in a road accident on Saturday, days before Lynch went missing off the coast of Sicily, Italy a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Chamberlain, Autonomy’s former vice-president of finance alongside chief executive Lynch, was hit by a car in Cambridgeshire, Britain on Saturday morning and was placed on life support, the person said.
Lynch was one of six people reported missing after a luxury yacht was struck by an unexpectedly violent storm and sank off Sicily early on Monday.
Chamberlain faced the same charges of fraud and conspiracy as his former boss for allegedly scheming to inflate the company’s value before it was sold.
Both men were acquitted of all 15 charges by a jury in San Francisco in June.
Police and rescuers at the scene of the search for Lynch’s a missing boat in Porticello Santa Flavia, Italy on Monday, Photo: LaPresse via AP
After leaving Autonomy in 2012, Chamberlain worked as chief operating officer for cybersecurity firm Darktrace and volunteered as a finance director for Cambridge United football club, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Cambridgeshire Police appealed for witnesses after a collision between a pedestrian and a car in Newmarket Road in Stretham, Cambridgeshire, saying a man in his 50s had been taken to hospital with serious injuries.
A police spokesman said on Monday there was no update on the pedestrian’s condition.
A message left at the law firm that represented Chamberlain in his trial did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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