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Mike Lynch has lost Britain’s biggest fraud case

As extradition to America looms, he will not be the only one with regrets

To be continued

TECH BOSSES are used to being feted by the British establishment. A warm welcome at 11 Downing Street, once reserved for City grandees, is increasingly offered to fintech upstarts. Budgets are tailored to their lobbyists’ shopping lists. MI6’s chief spy has pledged that spooks will work with them on new technologies.

This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Lynchpin”

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