John McAfee has died in a Spanish prison cell following an extradition warrant

During the day the Spanish court ruled in favor of his extradition, John McAfee He died in an outside prison in Barcelona. The pioneer of the virus became a fugitive at the age of 75.

McAfee has been in custody in Spain since last fall, when he was arrested on charges of tax evasion. The U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission added to these charges in March, Imputation of McAfee and a partner in various accounts supposedly linked to two cryptocurrency schemes, supposedly over many years. He was sentenced to a decade in prison if convicted of all charges.

Brians 2 prison security guards found McAfee dead on Wednesday; in the statement given at Associated Press, The Catalan government stated that McAfee had committed suicide. The request for comments to the Catalan government was not returned at press time.

“In Spain our legal team has confirmed that John has been found dead in his prison cell. It saddens me to learn of the facts and my prayers go to my wife Janice,” McAfee’s lawyer, Nishay K. Sanan, said in a statement. “He tried to love this country, but the US government made his existence impossible. They tried to eradicate him but they failed.”

After spending time in Roanoke, Virginia, and after some short-term work, McAfeek became rich in anti-virus software. Founded by McAfee Associates in 1987; its homonymous product was among the first of its kind. An as specified definitely 2012 WIRED profileIt was inspired by the spread of McAfee Brain, the first computer virus to hit computers around the world. He left Lockheed’s job to start a business from his home; within a few years McAfee antivirus got it everywhere. In 1992 he became a public company. He left two years later, ten million dollars richer than when he started.

For the balance of the 90s and 00s, McAfe said it followed a similar arc as did the first success stories of the technology. He set up a yoga studio, set up an instant messaging business, wrote some books. But like It was written by Joshua Davis in 2012, McAfe lost a large amount of money when the economy collapsed in 2008, and in that year moved to Belize. His conduct there became more and more disturbing; he set himself up as a vigilant guardian, hired guards and bought guns and built a mysterious laboratory in his vast complex. In November of that year, Belizean authorities called McAfee a “person of interest” in connection with the death of his neighbor. McAfe fled.

Since then, McAfee has changed itself as a pioneer and provocateur of cryptocurrency. He promoted several coins in his active Twitter feed, which he was very compensated for doing behind the scenes. The SEC accused McAfee of carrying out a parallel “pump-and-dump” scheme in which he and his associates allegedly loaded a niche coin, asking people to buy it on social media and sell it in the resulting frenzy. McAfee intended to face the charges. According to Sanan.

He said McAfee’s two attempts at the U.S. presidency — when he got some support in the 2016 Libertarian 2016 primaries — are roughly a footnote. Or that he was a man synonymous with the virus for 2017 legally prohibited from referring to “McAfee” in the context of cybersecurity, as part of an agreement with Intel he bought the company in 2010 for nearly $ 8 billion.

John McAfee’s life was full of complications; its heritage is a zenith and a nadir, and was singular at all times.

If you or someone you love is thinking of committing suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Line at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).

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