British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been confirmed as among the dead after a superyacht sank off Sicily this week.
The Italian coastguard said the bodies of Morgan Stanley chairman Jonathan Bloomer and US lawyer Christopher Morvillo had also been recovered, along with those of their wives, Judy Bloomer and Neda Morvillo.
Mr Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter Hannah remains missing.
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Recaldo Thomas, the yacht’s chef, also died and was found in the hours after Monday’s early morning sinking.
It comes as another body was brought up from the wreck on Thursday morning, after divers recovered four yesterday.
Six people were originally missing and 15 rescued after the UK-flagged Bayesian capsized amid a storm.
Mr Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares, is among the survivors.
Jonathan Bloomer was chairman of Morgan Stanley International and Hiscox. Pic: Hiscox/Linkedin
Christopher Morvillo was a lawyer who worked on Mr Lynch’s fraud case. Pic: Clifford Chance
The ship has been resting at a depth of 50m (163ft) off Porticello near Palermo, where it had been anchored.
Mr Lynch, 59, known as the “British Bill Gates“, had been in the headlines in recent months over a high-profile fraud case in the US.
Divers have recovered five bodies from the wreck in the last 24 hours. Pic: Reuters
In June, he was cleared of all charges by a jury related to the sale of his software company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard in 2011.
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