Mike Lynch is missing after a yacht sank. In a bizarre coincidence, his fraud codefendant died 2 days earlier.

Stephen Chamberlain, the codefendant in Mike Lynch's fraud trial, died after being struck by a car.

The incident occurred two days before Lynch's yacht sunk off the coast of Sicily.

Chamberlain and Lynch were both acquitted in a high-profile US fraud trial.

Stephen Chamberlain, the codefendant of tech tycoon Mike Lynch, died after being hit by a car on Saturday.

Chamberlain worked alongside Lynch as Autonomy's former finance vice president and was a codefendant in a US fraud trial also involving Lynch. Both were acquitted in the high-profile fraud case.

By Beatrice Nolan

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