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Anti-virus software entrepreneur John McAfee has been found dead in a Barcelona prison cell hours after a Spanish court agreed to extradite him to the US to face tax evasion charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Catalan Justice Department said prison medics tried to resuscitate him, but were not successful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It said in a statement that \u201ceverything indicates\u201d McAfee took his own life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A controversial figure in the tech world, his company released the first commercial anti-virus software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 (\u00a34.7bn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In October 2020, John McAfee was arrested in Spain when he was about to board a plane to Turkey, and 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was also accused of concealing assets, including a yacht and real estate property, also in other people\u2019s names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spain\u2019s National Court authorised his extradition to the US to face the charges on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, McAfee repeatedly claimed that there was a plot to get him \u2013 however the court said there was \u201cno revealing evidence\u201d that he was being prosecuted for political or ideological reasons, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Nishay Sanan, McAfee\u2019s lawyer, said he had intended to fight all the charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is again the US government trying to erase John McAfee,\u201d Mr Sanan told NPR on Wednesday. \u201cThis man was a fighter. And in the minds of everyone who knew him, he will always be a fighter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"John<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although a pioneer of computer security, he once admitted to the BBC that he never actually used the software on his own computers \u2013 or any anti-virus software for that matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI 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,\u201d he told the BBC\u2019s technology reporter Leo Kelion in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPorn sites, for example, I just don\u2019t go there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also launched unsuccessful bids to become the Libertarian Party\u2019s candidate for the presidential elections in 2016 and 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019 McAfee expressed his disdain for taxes, tweeting that he had not filed tax returns for eight years because \u201ctaxation is illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the same year he was briefly detained in the Dominican Republic for allegedly bringing weapons into the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Send your news stories to\u00a0dannyboy744@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0and via WhatsApp on +233 266777777<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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