Stephen Chamberlain: Former VP of Finance at Lynch’s Autonomy died after being hit by a car

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A former US fraud suspect who was involved with British businessman Mike Lynch has died after being hit by a car just days before the yacht carrying the missing business magnate sank off the coast of Sicily.

Stephen Chamberlain, 52, the former vice president of finance at Lynch’s former company Autonomy, was hit by a car while jogging on Saturday, his attorney Gary Linsenberg told CNN on Monday.

The incident occurred just two days before British investor Lynch, 59, disappeared with five others after a hurricane sank their luxury yacht off the coast of Sicily in the early hours of Monday morning.

Last June, a San Francisco court acquitted Lynch and Chamberlain of fraud charges related to the $11 billion sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 2011.

Prosecutors alleged that the couple planned to Inflate self-government revenues Before it was sold to HP.

Chamberlain was facing the same 15 charges — one count of conspiracy and 14 counts of wire fraud — as Lynch.

“He was a courageous man of unparalleled integrity,” Linsenberg said. “We will miss him dearly. Steve successfully fought to clear his good name at trial earlier this year, and his good name lives on now through his wonderful family.”

Earlier on Monday, Cambridgeshire Police appealed for witnesses to a collision between a man and a car in Streatham, Cambridgeshire.

The police statement did not name Chamberlain but said a man in his 50s from Longstate was hit by a car on Saturday morning and taken to hospital with serious injuries.

The police service said the driver of the car, a 49-year-old woman, was assisting police with the investigation.