On August 19, tech billionaire Mike Lynch died when his yacht capsized off the coast of Sicily due to encountering a violent storm.

On the same day, miles away in an English village near Cambridge, Stephen Chamberlain, Lynch’s business partner, was hit by a car while out for a jog.

If that wasn’t uncanny enough, the two men were recently acquitted of charges related to alleged fraud.

Coincidence?

James Poulos thinks not.

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“What was strange about the capsizing of this boat [is] there was another ship – another yacht – nearby that was also anchored in the area that was not destroyed and really not even damaged by this storm,” he tells Jill Savage and the “Blaze News Tonight” panel.

“There are questions about whether the mast was so heavy that it kept the boat capsized.”

However, according to the designer of the boat, the ship was “unsinkable,” which has led to “questions of whether or not somebody sabotaged the boat or left something open that should have been closed during the storm,” Poulos says.

As far as Chamberlain’s death goes, British authorities have “the make and model” of the car that hit him, and they have taken “a 49-year-old woman” “into custody.”

Suspiciously, when “police put out a call for witnesses … there were none,” says Poulos.

In regard to the acquittal that narrowly preceded their deaths, Poulos says that the trial revolved around the “the sale of the firm Autonomy [Corporation],” which Mike Lynch co-founded, “to Hewlett-Packard back in the 2010s.”

“This was a huge scandal at the time,” Poulos says. “Hewlett-Packard acquired the company for billions and billions of dollars and then very soon thereafter had to write down about $8.8 billion as a loss.”

“There are some interesting questions about who was president of Hewlett-Packard at that time, why his tenure was so short, why he made such a 180 in sort of defining Hewlett-Packard's business model. The acquisition of [Autonomy] was designed to be the piece that allowed Hewlett-Packard to pivot in this massive way from hardware to software.”

“Who's behind the deaths?” asks Blaze Media editor in chief Matthew Peterson, acknowledging the swirling conspiracy theories.

To hear Poulos’ answer, watch the clip above.

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