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Anti-virus creator, John McAfee found dead in Spanish prison

Akinwande Soji-Ojo by Akinwande Soji-Ojo
June 24, 2021
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Anti-virus software entrepreneur, John McAfee, has been found dead in a Barcelona prison, hours after a Spanish court agreed to extradite him to the United States to face tax evasion charges.

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The Catalan justice department said medics had tried to resuscitate the 75-year-old, but were not successful.

It added that “everything indicates McAfee had taken his own life.”

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A controversial figure in the tech world, his company released the first commercial anti-virus software.

McAfee VirusScan helped to spark a multi-billion dollar industry in the computer world, and was eventually sold to technology giant Intel for more than $7.6bn (£4.7bn).

In October 2020, John McAfee was arrested in Spain when he was about to board a plane to Turkey. He was accused of failing to file tax returns for four years, despite earning millions from consulting work, speaking engagements, crypto-currencies and selling the rights to his life story.

The US justice department alleged that McAfee evaded tax liability by having his income paid into bank accounts and cryptocurrency exchange accounts in the names of nominees.

He was also accused of concealing assets, including a yacht and real estate property, also in other people’s names.

Spain’s National Court authorised his extradition to the US to face the charges on Wednesday morning.

In recent years, McAfee had repeatedly claimed that there was a plot to get him.He had argued in a hearing earlier this month that the charges against him were politically motivated and that he would spend the rest of his life in prison if returned to the US.

However, the court said there was “no revealing evidence that British-born American being prosecuted for political or ideological reasons,” Spanish newspaper El Pais reported.

But Nishay Sanan, McAfee’s lawyer, said he had intended to fight all the charges.

“This is again the US government trying to erase John McAfee. This man was a fighter. And in the minds of everyone who knew him, he will always be a fighter,”Sanan told NPR on Wednesday.

The entrepreneur, who was born in Gloucestershire, England, first came to prominence in the 1980s when he founded his tech company and released McAfee VirusScan.

Although a pioneer of computer security, he once admitted to the BBC that he never actually used the software on his own computers or any anti-virus software for that matter.

“I protect myself by constantly changing my IP [internet protocol] address, by not attaching my name to any device I use, and by not going on to sites where you might pick up a virus.

“Porn sites, for example, I just don’t go there,”he told the BBC’s technology reporter, Leo Kelion in 2013

He also launched unsuccessful bids to become the Libertarian Party’s candidate for the US presidential elections in 2016 and 2020.

In 2019 McAfee expressed his disdain for taxes, tweeting that he had not filed tax returns for eight years because “taxation is illegal.” That year, he left the US to avoid trial, largely living on a megayacht with his wife, four large dogs, two security guards and seven staff

In the same year he was briefly detained in the Dominican Republic for allegedly bringing weapons into the country.

He offered to help Cuba avoid a US trade embargo using cryptocurrency and sought to run for U.S. president for the Libertarian Party.

McAfee, who said in 2018 that he had fathered at least 47 children, lived in Belize for several years. He fled after police sought him for questioning in the 2012 murder of a neighbour. They ultimately said he was not a suspect.

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