John McAfee dead: Antivirus tycoon found lifeless in prison after court OKs extradition
UK-born wild man of infosec faced trial in America for tax evasion
Iain Thomson in San Francisco
Wed 23 Jun 2021 // 19:52 UTC
John McAfee was found dead in his cell in a Barcelona prison on Wednesday, according to the Catalan justice department.
Spain’s high court – the Audiencia Nacional – had just hours earlier agreed to his extradition to America to stand trial for alleged tax evasion.
The 75-year-old, British-born former antivirus baron, who founded McAfee Associates in the late 1980s and made his millions before more or less retiring in the mid-1990s, was being held at a prison in Sant Esteve Sesrovires following his arrest at Barcelona airport in October 2020.
Prosecutors are investigating his death, and believe at this stage it was suicide, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported. Officials confirmed to Reuters the infosec world's wild man had been discovered lifeless in his cell.
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Sursa: https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/23/john_mcafee_dead/