Mike Lynch, the Bayesian shipwreck and the mysteries: the members of the Darktrace company and the links that reach up to the Epstein case

A spy story? Maybe yes. Maybe no. But there are certainly all the elements to be able to say that the coincidences there are too many around the mystery of the shipwreck of the Bayesianthe 56-metre sailing vessel that sank at dawn on Monday while at anchor in Porticello, in the province of Palermo, after being hit by a storm. With the vessel intactlying on the seabed at a depth of 50 metres, and with the silence imposed by the Prosecutor’s Office of Termini Imeresewho decided to block all communication with the press as soon as it became known that on board the sailing vessel there was the tycoon Mike Lynchthe strangest rumours and reconstructions on how it could have happened the vessel sank have kept company with those on the links between the entrepreneur known as the “British Bill Gates” And the secret services from half the world.

They are all there except the Italian ones, which are currently “not received”: from Hi to theMI5 English passing through the Mossad Israeli. Lynch and his company Darktracewhich deals with cybersecuritythey have not skimped on relationships with anyone. Just take a look at theOrganizational chart of the company, before it was acquired in recent months, to realize that among the members of Darktrace, founded by Mike Lynch, there were Lord Evans of Weardaleformer director of the British secret services, and Alan Wadea member of the CIA for 35 years until 2005. It is the same Wade who founded the company Chiliad together with Christine Maxwellsister of Ghislaine MaxwellSentenced in 2022 to 20 years in prison (which she is serving in Brooklyn), Ghislaine Maxwell hit the headlines because she was involved in a racket child prostitution managed in the so-called “pedophile island” by the entrepreneur Jeffrey Edward Epstein.

Regardless of the sexual accusations, before hanged in New York prison in 2019Epstein was considered a Mossad agent which had the task of collecting compromising material on powerful people. Friend of the Prince Andrewbrother of King CharlesEpstein had relations with the Israeli secret services perhaps thanks to the mistress Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of Robert Maxwella former British newspaper magnate and former MP who also died in strange circumstances. After being fell from his yachtin fact, his body was found in the 1991 while floating in the ocean near the Canary Islands.

In official documents, the British Foreign Office suspected Maxwell of being “a secret agent of a foreign government” who was playing a double or triple game, “certainly financed by the Russia”. The businessman of Ukrainian origins, in fact, had links with the British secret service (MI6), with the KGB Soviet and with the Mossad, of course. Buried in Jerusalem, his funeral was attended by at least six heads of Israeli secret services and even the then Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir who, in his eulogy to Maxwell, said: “He did more for Israel than can be said today”. More than a century has passed since then. 30 years oldthe world has changed and the attention of the secret services is now focused on the threats of Russian hackers to contrast with companies like Mike Lynch’s Darktrace which not only dealt with artificial intelligence applied to cybersecurity but had hired numerous former secret agents.

It is no coincidence that, in the aftermath of the war in Ukrainethe actions of Lynch’s company are take off to be sold for over 5 billion eurospaid entirely in cash a few months after tensions erupted in the Gaza Strip. In one way or another, Israel brought luck to the business of the British tycoon who died on the outskirts of Palermo while celebrating with friends and collaborators his acquittal and that of the founders of Autonomy, obtained last June in San Franciscoin the United States, where he had been extradited because he was accused of conspiracy and fraud. Autonomy, the company sold by Lynch in 2011 for 11 billion dollars to HP, which after a year spoke of an overvaluation of 8 billion.

From here the trial and then the acquittal celebrated on the sailing ship Bayesian where the Chairman of Morgan Stanley International Bank Jonathan Bloomer and the lawyer Christopher Morvilloleading the legal team that dropped the charges against Lynch and his partner Stephen Chamberlainthe former number two of “Darktrace”, a company born after the sale of “Autonomy”. co-defendant Lynch was not on the boat that sank in Sicily because Saturday morning was invested from a blue Opel Corsa in Stretham, Cambridgeshirewhile walking across Newmarket Road. Seriously injured, Chamberlain was found dead on Sunday night died in hospital a few hours before the tragic shipwreck in which his partner and his lawyer drowned.

A tragic coincidence that, at the moment, proves nothing if not supported by concrete elements. While waiting to understand what will emerge from theinvestigation of the Termini Imerese Public Prosecutor’s Office, certainly the context in which the protagonists of the Bayesian shipwreck operated fuels the suggestion that there could be something strange around this story. The conditional is a must. In any case, one of two things: either the English billionaires who gravitated around Mike Lynch were particularly unlucky (including him) or the prosecutors will have to understand not only how the sailing ship sank, but also whether it was a randomness.