Autonomy co-founder's lawyers attack 'overweening' US extradition effort
by Rupert Neate from on (#5DZ2G)
Mike Lynch's legal team tell court US is not the global marshal of corporate world' and case should be heard in UK
Lawyers acting for Mike Lynch, the British tech multimillionaire facing extradition on fraud charges, accused the US in a London court on Monday of exerting itself as an overweening international police force".
Lynch, charged with 14 counts of conspiracy and fraud linked to the $11.6bn (8.6bn) sale of his former company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard (HP) a decade ago, was beginning a legal fight against extradition to the US at Westminster magistrates court.
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