The sunken super yacht, the suspicious shadows of the spy services

No one has yet truly understood how the Bayesian, Mike Lynch's mega yacht, sank in Porticello on that night of storm and tragedy.

The mainmast was not broken and they did not even find a leak in the boat. "An anomalous, unprecedented event for a vessel of that size," said Mattheë Schank, president of the Maritime Search and Rescue Council.

The fact is, when you don't understand something, doubts and mysteries quickly flourish. One of the first to discover this Pandora's box was Mike East, an English journalist with a solid history as a "retrologist". But this time he was not alone in airing his suspicions, and in the big cauldron of news even the pompous and sober BBC ended up asking itself the same questions.

It's a story that starts with Mike Lynch and his creation, Darktrace, a cyber technology company well known by secret services around the world and which has always had very close relations with the Mossad.

Around the figure of this British Bill Gates hang some strange events of international espionage, spies on missions in the heart of conflicts, billions galore, various trials and punishments, the most macabre coincidences, a shipwreck identical to that of Palermo and other deaths mysterious.

There is a lot of material and a lot of conspiracy theorists. You just shouldn't drown in them.

Anyway, it all started with the sinking of the Bayesian at Porticello, 56 meters long and 473 tons heavy, due to a tornado at 4 am on Monday, August 19.

The yacht would have ended up under water in a remarkably quick time of about 10 seconds, dragging the 12 passengers and 10 crew members with it.

Of them, 15 were saved. Among the missing are Mike Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah and Jonathan Bloomer, president of Morgan Stanley International and a key defense witness in the long-running fraud case against Lynch in the United States, which ended two months ago. seen with Lynch's acquittal.

Karsten Borner, the captain of a yacht moored nearby, says he saw the mainmast, the mainmast "bend and break". But the BBC reports the testimony of Marco Tilotto, a fire brigade diver, who said the ship was intact and lying on its side. Matthew Schank also explained how unlikely it is that the main pillar could have broken. In any case, he added, this event is unprecedented.

It actually seems strange that a super high-tech yacht sinks in an amen while lighter boats nearby suffer no damage. There is no denying that there is something unclear. But above all, it is the numbers of missing persons (including Lynch's lawyer) and their pasts that raise suspicions.

Mike Lynch's company, Darktrace, has very close relations with the Mossad. According to what is reported by Agenzia Nova, the systems of Lynch's company would have been used to identify some of the commanders of Hamas. Mike East also writes that it would have had several former members of the British and American secret services on its staff and on its board of directors.

Jonathan Evans, former director general of MI5, also joined Darktrace's advisory board, after 33 years – as the company's website says – focusing on counter-terrorism and cyber threats.

Trade magazine This is Money reports that in April Lynch quietly sold many of his shares and Darktrace was acquired by Thoma Bravo, a private equity firm that owns shares in several cybersecurity groups, including McAfee, the founder of who was found dead in prison under circumstances that have never been fully clarified.

Between one plot and another, with several mysterious deaths, the only thing for sure is that Lynch has always managed to fill his coffers well. Then in June his trial in the United States for fraud and conspiracy ended, where he faced 20 years in prison and he and his partner Stephen Chamberlain were acquitted.

Lucky time? It's not even a question. Enemies and fate are always in slumber. The yacht sank off Palermo carrying Mike Lynch and at the same time Stephen Chamberlain was jogging near his home in the village of Stretham when an Opel Corsa driven by a 49-year-old woman hit and killed him.

Both depart this life on the same days. To be coincidental is not bad.

In the line-up of the suspects, one hypothesized that during the trial they had used their information to influence very powerful witnesses. Sometimes imagination has no limits. A revenge without evidence.

The similarities are followed by another striking one. On May 28, 2023, on Lake Maggiore in Italy, the Gooduria, a boat carrying 21 members of the intelligence community, 8 Italians and 13 Israelis, capsized due to a whirlwind.

Two Italian agents and one from Tel Aviv die, as does the captain's partner. They had no escape because they were trapped in the hull. The others saved themselves by swimming.

Even if at the time it seemed clear that it was an accident, it is the coincidences that arouse the attention of the most suspicious. The boat, the Mossad, the whirlwind, the sea James Bonds and their mysteries.

And then you know how it goes. The truth is sometimes just a secret that cannot be told./ La Stampa