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By Jess Jones Mike Lynch, the former boss of software firm Autonomy, was acquitted on Thursday of all 15 charges of fraud linked to the $11.1bn sale of the company to Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 2011. The British tech mogul’s trial began in March, following a protracted fight over his extradition from the UK to the US. Ajury in San Francisco found him not guilty on all counts. First charged in 2018, Lynch faced accusations of inflating Autonomy’s sales figures ahead of its sale, misleading regulators, and deceiving HP. The deal was the largest-ever takeover of a British technology business at the …

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