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finance.yahoo said that Tue, February 9, 2021, 6:15 AM·2 min readFILE PHOTO: British entrepreneur Mike Lynch leaves the High Court in LondonLONDON (Reuters) – British tech billionaire Michael Lynch begins his fight against extradition to the United States to face charges over the sale of the software company he co-founded on Tuesday, in a test of an extradition treaty critics say is lopsided.
U.S. prosecutors want Lynch to stand trial on 17 counts, including securities fraud, connected to the sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard (HP) in a $11 billion deal in 2011.
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