McAfee Creator Found Dead In Cell
Anti-virus software entrepreneur, John McAfee has been found dead in a Barcelona prison cell.
This was hours after a Spanish court agreed to extradite him to the US to face tax evasion charges.
The Catalan justice department said medics had tried to resuscitate the 75-year-old, but were not successful.
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.
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 (£4.7bn).
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.
Catalan justice department added that "everything indicates" McAfee had taken his own life.
A controversial figure in the tech world, his company released the first commercial anti-virus software.
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