[Italian prosecutors have begun
an official investigation of
James Cutfield, captain
of the superyacht belonging to
British tech magnate
Mike Lynch that sank off Sicily last week,
killing its owner and six others,
Italian media is reporting.
Being placed under investigation in Italy
does not imply guilt and does not mean
formal charges will necessarily follow.
A 51-year old
New Zealand national,
Cutfield is being investigated for
manslaughter and shipwreck,
the dailies La Repubblica and Corriere
della Sera said.
While the yacht had been hit by a
very sudden meteorological event,
it was plausible that crimes of
multiple manslaughter and causing a
shipwreck through negligence had
been committed,
the head of the public prosecutor's
office of Termini Imerese,
Ambrogio Cartosio, said on Saturday.]
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