This happened on the day Spain allowed his extradition to the United States
John McAfee, the American creator of the famous anti-virus program, wanted for tax fraud in his homeland, was found dead in prison, world agencies reported. This happened on the day when the Spanish judiciary allowed the extradition to the United States.
Becoming a guru of cryptocurrencies, this businessman was arrested in October 2020 at Barcelona airport and placed in pre-trial detention. However, the green light for his extradition, given by a Spanish court, can be appealed. It must then be approved by the Spanish government.
According to US prosecutors, McAfee, 75, failed to declare millions of dollars in income and also hid real estate, a car and a yacht from the tax authorities by recording them in other people’s names. He was wanted on an international arrest warrant.
McAfee was also talked about in 2012, when his neighbor in Belize was mysteriously killed, and this crime remains unsolved to this day. Police in the course of the investigation then discovered that McAfee himself lived with a 17-year-old girl and had several weapons in his home. McAfee fled then, and the media followed his search for police for months.
In 2015, he was detained in the United States for driving under the influence of narcotics. In 2019, he boasted that he wanted to be a presidential candidate.
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