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Speaker 1: Devin graz Are UK corresponding, Devin, Hello, Hi there, Kevin.

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Speaker 1: What's going on with the captain of the boat.

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Speaker 2: That sunk Well, it's just being reported just in the

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Speaker 2: last few minutes that James Cutfield, a fifty one year

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Speaker 2: old New Zealand national, has now been placed under an

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Speaker 2: official investigation of the sinking of the Baysian super yacht.

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Speaker 2: That was the yacht that sank off Sicily last week,

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Speaker 2: killing the British tech billionaire Mike Lynch and six others.

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Speaker 2: To be clear, being placed under investigation in Italy does

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Speaker 2: not imply guilt. It does not mean formal charges will

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Speaker 2: necessarily follow. But this is an investigation that now has

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Speaker 2: come up and as opposed to looking at the investigation

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Speaker 2: as to the sinking, this is specifically an investigation it

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Speaker 2: is reported into the captain at that time and at

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Speaker 2: the moment of course, everyone's been looking at the weather

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Speaker 2: conditions that the manufacturers of the yacht have been saying, look,

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Speaker 2: you know, if everything had been followed and done according

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Speaker 2: to plan, this yacht would not have sank. And those

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Speaker 2: I think are the allegations around which this has now focused.

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Speaker 2: But as I said, this is news just in unconfirmed reports,

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Speaker 2: but it has now been reported in a couple of

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Speaker 2: the Italian media as well. With maritime law, they're giving

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Speaker 2: a captain full responsibility for the ship and the crew

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Speaker 2: as well as all those on board.

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Speaker 1: Kevinnesson, I don't know how much you know about maritime law,

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Speaker 1: but could man's laughter relate to the fact that the

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Speaker 1: portholes weren't closed and there wasn't a sufficient warning and

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Speaker 1: these people weren't told to get off the boat in

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Speaker 1: time before the storm? Can it apply to that?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I think it can, and that is precisely I

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Speaker 2: think what the earlier allegations had been. The Italian prosecutors

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Speaker 2: held a press conference at the weekend where it was

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Speaker 2: revealed the victims were unable to escape as they may

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Speaker 2: have been asleep. They've scrambled to one side of the

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Speaker 2: ship in search of air pockets, but obviously unfortunately weren't

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Speaker 2: able to manage to escape, and one line of inquiry

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Speaker 2: being pursued by prosecutors is whether the nine surviving crew

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Speaker 2: members raised the alarm before they managed to escape, and yes,

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Speaker 2: how the so much water managed to get onto the

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Speaker 2: yacht before it actually sank and maybe obviously causing it

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Speaker 2: to sink with those extreme weather conditions which have been forecasts.

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Speaker 2: But as I said, early information just coming through there

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Speaker 2: from Italy.

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Speaker 1: Kevin, why is this telegram check being arrested in France.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a really complicated story. So this is involving

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Speaker 2: Pavel Durov. He is the boss of Telegram, and he

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Speaker 2: was in his private jet landing at Paris Airport La Borges,

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Speaker 2: which is one used by often businessmen and so forth,

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Speaker 2: when he was detained. Now, according to the officials, the

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Speaker 2: thirty nine year old billionaire was arrested under warrant for

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Speaker 2: offenses relating to the popular messaging app Telegram. Bosses have

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Speaker 2: since said he's got en thing to hide, but the

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Speaker 2: investigation is reportedly around the lack of moderators and the

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Speaker 2: fact that it's alleged that mister Durov has failed to

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Speaker 2: take steps to curb criminal uses of Telegram. Durov lives

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Speaker 2: in Dubai. He is of course born and a Russian

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Speaker 2: national and actually holds dual citizenship as well. Now with

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Speaker 2: the United Arab Emirates and France, and Telegram has been

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Speaker 2: incredibly popular, has suddenly spun out of enormous wealth and value,

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Speaker 2: but there have been huge concerns among investigators and police

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Speaker 2: operators around the world, saying it has basically become the

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Speaker 2: go to messaging forum for criminals and more needs to

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Speaker 2: be done to stop that. And I think that's now

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Speaker 2: why the officials in Paris have arrested him.

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Speaker 1: Have you seen the photograph of him in the Telegraph

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Speaker 1: today with his top off?

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Speaker 2: I saw one where he's sitting in an ice bath. Yes,

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Speaker 2: Why is he doing that?

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Speaker 1: Why is he taking his top off and sitting in

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Speaker 1: an icepat Is he just one of these eccentric tech guys.

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Speaker 2: I think he quite likes to show that he's a

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Speaker 2: buff and coming man of the world, etcetera, etcetera. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: you won't be seeing any pictures of me and Ikevin.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much appreciated. Gavin Gray are UK correspondent.

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