Antivirus creator John McAfee found dead in prison

John McAfee, creator of the famous antivirus, was found dead on Wednesday in a Catalan prison after his extradition to the United States was approved for a tax evasion case. It would have been suicide.

McAfee, 75, was in his cell at Brians 2 prison, in Sant Esteve de Sesrovires, Barcelona. The penitentiaries who found it intervened with the prison medical services to practice it. resuscitation maneuvers, but could not save his life.

The controversial tycoon was arrested on October 3, 2020 at El Prat airport, as he was about to board a plane to Turkey. The arrest came at the behest of the United States justice system, which accused McAfee of escape millions of dollars in income taxes supposedly obtained from activities such as cryptocurrency trading.

His death comes a few hours after the Spanish courts accepted his extradition to the United States. According to the American justice system, McAfee has obtained millions of revenues by promoting bitcoin, consulting works, conferences and selling the rights to his life story to a documentary.

These activities generated considerable income, despite between 2014 and 2018, you did not file income tax returns.

In his last tweet, published on June 16, he wrote: “The United States thinks I have hidden cryptocurrencies. I would love to, but it has been dissolved by the many hands of the McAfee team, and all of my remaining assets are seized. My friends evaporated for fear of the association “,.

A crazy life

Born in UK and raised in USA, founded the antivirus company in 1987. He was one of the first to design antivirus software and develop a computer virus scanner. Left the company in 1994, selling their shares.

McAfee went from being a billionaire cybersecurity guru to being in trouble with the law and leading a pretty crazy life.

In 2010, she decided to settle in Belize, where she gave yoga classes and wrote books. There, authorities ended up investigating him for his alleged involvement in murder of neighbor by gunshot to the head.

He escaped until he was finally arrested in Guatemala and transferred to Belize prison. In July 2019, McAfee was arrested in a port in the Dominican Republic with several weapons on board his yacht.

Couple with a prostituteIt was common to see him on his social networks drinking alcohol, surrounded by weapons and drugs, a vice he never hid.

Another of his eccentricities happened in 2016 when he decided stand for the presidential elections with the Libertarian Party, whose program includes the right to own weapons for self-defense, the abolition of laws that punish prostitution and the possession and sale of drugs for personal consumption.

The trust he placed in cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin, led John McAfee to make an unusual and extravagant bet three years ago. Through his profile on Twitter, he said that he was going to eat his own penis live on national TV if the digital currency didn’t hit the million dollar mark at the end of 2020. He did not comply.

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