MIKE Lynch’s battle to fight extradition to the US on fraud charges could come to an end this week, with the Home Secretary due to rule on his case tomorrow.
It marks the latest twist and turn in what has become one of the corporate world’s most complex legal cases, a decade on from Hewlett Packard’s
The Serious Fraud Office in the
But US authorities charged Lynch on fraud counts, and a judge ruled earlier this year that Lynch should be extradited to the US to face those charges, a decision which now falls to Patel. If the home secretary decides that he should be extradited, Lynch would have 14 days to appeal.
The timing is contentious as a civil case brought by
Lynch’s legal team argued in the June extradition case that a judgment should be laid down before any decision on handing Lynch over to American authorities is made.
Judge
Lynch has denied all charges. He has also said that HP’s complaints stem from a decision to pay a 70 per cent premium when it bought Autonomy.
“It was an astronomical amount of money, but it was their choice – not ours,” he told the
The entrepreneur’s legacy includes also includes London-HQed cybersecurity darling
Lynch’s investment trust was Darktrace’s first investor. The firm’s CEO
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