Autonomy founder Mike Lynch was ‘driving force’ of ‘massive’ fraud, US court told
by Callum Jones in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#6KDZ4)
Lawyer says tech tycoon will testify in trial on charges of fraud and conspiracy in 2011 sale of company to HP
A British technology tycoon once lauded as Britain's Bill Gates" was the driving force" behind a massive" years-long fraud, prosecutors alleged, as his criminal trial got under way in San Francisco on Monday.
Prosecutors said Mike Lynch, co-founder of the UK software company Autonomy, ruled the firm with an iron fist" before its blockbuster takeover by Hewlett-Packard in 2011.
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