Morgan Stanley International bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer is among the people missing after his luxury yacht capsized in a storm off Sicily on Monday, an Italian official said, according to the Guardian.
Salvatore Cocina, head of the civil protection agency in Sicily, said Blumer and Chris Morvillo, a lawyer at Clifford Chance, are among the six missing. Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter, Hannah, were also missing as of late Monday.
The six people missing after Mike Lynch’s superyacht sank on the coast on Sicily include the chairman of Morgan Stanley International, Jonathan Bloomer, and his wife, according to Italian authorities.
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The update came as it was reported that Lynch's co-defendant in a US lawsuit over the sale of his software company to Hewlett-Packard has died after being hit by a car in England.
The under British-flagged Bayesian, a 56-metre sailing vessel, was carrying 22 people and was 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 a statement earlier.
< p>A man, who was the chef of the boat, has been confirmed dead. The coastguard said the missing had British, American and Canadian nationalities.
Fifteen people were rescued, including Leeds' wife, Angela Bacares, the owner of the boat, and a one-year-old girl who was rescued by the mother of.
source: CNN Greece
