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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Business
Blake Montgomery

Tech tycoon Mike Lynch cleared of all fraud charges in Hewlett-Packard trial

Mike Lynch leaves court in London in 2019.
Mike Lynch leaves court in London in 2019. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters

The British tech tycoon Mike Lynch was found not guilty on Thursday on all 15 counts of fraud he faced over the $11.1bn purchase of his company Autonomy by Hewlett-Packard in 2011.

Lynch’s trial began in March in San Francisco after a lengthy battle over his extradition from England to the US. He was first charged in 2018, accused of inflating sales, misleading regulators and duping his eventual buyer.

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