McAfee a controversial figure who committed suicide in prison.
Although many have forgotten the fact, the body of the creator of computer antivirus McAfee is still in a morgue in Barcelona a year after his death in prison, while the Spanish justice decides whether to accept the family’s appeal to reopen the investigations that led to the suicide.
John McAfee’s body remains in the filing of the Barcelona Institute of Forensic Medicine, sources from the Department of Justice of the Catalonia region confirmed.
There he was transferred shortly after the afternoon of June 23, 2021, when the controversial businessman’s body was discovered in his cell in Brians 2, some 40 kilometers from Barcelona. Everything indicated an apparent suicideand this was subsequently confirmed by the only autopsy performed to date.
“A year ago today John McAfee was stolen from us. Leader in freedom and privacy, the world is a darker place without him,” Janice McAfee wrote on Twitter.
His wife, on the other hand, never believed that McAfee, then 75 years old and that a few hours before his death, the Spanish justice had authorized to extradite to the United States. he would have taken his own life.
For this he asked for more proceedings, deeming the first autopsy “incomplete”, according to his lawyer, Javier Villalba.
Given the refusal of the investigating judge, and in order to reopen the investigation, the family subsequently filed an appeal, still awaiting resolution, at the Provincial Court of Barcelona.
Accused in the United States of tax fraud, John McAfee made his fortune with the antivirus that bears his name in the 1980s. He later became a cryptocurrency guru and He was followed by a million people on Twitter.
He was arrested in October 2020 at Barcelona airport after a US prosecutor published an indictment against him for failing to report millions of dollars in revenue from promoting cryptocurrencies, consulting services, conferences. and sold rights for a documentary about his life.
The US authorities had issued an arrest warrant through Interpol and requested his extradition for crimes which, if convicted, would have resulted in a prison sentence. up to 30 years of imprisonment.
A few hours before his death, Spanish justice had authorized his extradition, although he could still be appealed and had to be approved by the Catalan government.
It wasn’t the first time McAfee had been involved in controversy. After the mysterious murder of his neighbor in Belize in 2012, in a still unsolved case, police discovered that the computer scientist was living with a 17-year-old girl and had guns in his house.
McAfee had been on the run for months and was arrested in the United States for drunk driving in 2015. In 2019 he left his country again.
a movie life
McAfee was found dead in a Catalan prison.
In just a few years, the tycoon went from being a Silicon Valley pioneer and creating one of the first antivirus in history to leaving it all behind to dive into a crazy life, with some cinematic spice.
Born on a US military base in the UK to an American father and British mother, McAfee grew up in the US, although he has always maintained dual nationality.
After briefly working for NASA in the late 1960s, the computer scientist traversed various companies, mostly related to information technology, until he founded his antivirus company, McAfee Associates, in 1987.
With information from agencies.
Source: Clarin
