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Antivirus pioneer John McAfee ‘kills himself’ after he was to be extradited to US for ‘evading taxes for three years’
ANTIVIRUS pioneer John McAfee has reportedly killed himself after he was extradited to the United States.
The 75-year-old tech mogul took his own life in a prison in Barcelona, according to local paper El Pais.
McAfee was arrested on October 3 of last year at El Prat airport in Spain, as he was about to flee the country to Turkey.
That same month, McAfee was charged in Tennessee with evading taxes after failing to report income made from promoting cryptocurrencies while he did consulting work, made speaking engagements and sold the rights to his life story for a documentary.
McAfee developed early internet security software and has been sought by authorities in the US and Belize in the past.
The Tennessee indictment said McAfee failed to file tax returns from 2014 to 2018, despite receiving “considerable income” from several sources.
In July 2019, McAfee was released from detention in the Dominican Republic after he and five others were suspected of traveling on a yacht carrying high-caliber weapons, ammunition and military-style gear, officials on the Caribbean island said at the time.
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