The seventy-five-year-old technological pioneer was to always earn more than 22 million dollars a year, ie more than half a billion crowns. In the years 2014 to 2018, however, he did not pay a penny in taxes.
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McAfee was detained at Barcelona airport while trying to travel to Istanbul with a British passport. He was subsequently transported to Madrid, where he will be waiting to be extradited to the USA.
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However, the famous English native, who worked in America for most of his life, was to earn millions of dollars mainly through various consultations, lectures, sales of rights to his life story, but also, for example, shops and cryptocurrencies.
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The creators of the anti-virus program McAfee also face allegations of fraud because he deliberately billed the purchase of luxury items to someone else, even though he paid for it himself. This is how he bought, for example, yachts, a car or real estate. According to investigators, the attempt not to pay taxes is therefore obvious.
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If McAfee is convicted of all charges, he faces up to 30 years in prison.
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The Securities Commission also seeks a restraining order so that a native of England may not act as a manager or direct solver of any company trading on the stock exchange.
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Murder charges and unauthorized transportation of weapons
McAfee did not dock in Europe by accident. For the first time, he has not retaliated with the law, the police in Belize accused him of murder in 2012. The victim was supposed to be the local builder Gregory Faull, who was shot dead at his headquarters in San Pedro on the island of Ambergris Caye.
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McAfee was to have long-standing disagreements with Faull. These culminated in 2012, when the pioneer of computer antivirus had to threaten Faull with a gun in his hand, and even shoot once. McAfee fled Belize and never returned.
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In mid-2019, he was detained in the Dominican Republic on his yacht due to the unauthorized transport of weapons.
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McAfee was one of the first to make a huge fortune on the Internet. He founded the company bearing his name in 1989. He left it in 1995 because it turned out that he was exaggerating the importance of the Michelangelo virus in order to increase sales of antivirus programs. It has nothing to do with the current antivirus producer.
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