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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Mark Sweney

Autonomy founder Mike Lynch extradited to US after losing appeal

Mike Lynch
Mike Lynch has always denied the allegations and any wrongdoing. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Archive/PA Images

The tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been extradited to the US to face criminal fraud charges, where a court has ordered him to pay a $100m (£79m) bond and called in 24-hour armed guards to ensure he does not flee the country.

Lynch, a billionaire founder once lauded as Britain’s answer to Bill Gates, is facing allegations that he duped the US firm Hewlett-Packard into overpaying when it struck an $11bn deal for his software firm Autonomy in 2011. He denies any wrongdoing.

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