Anti-virus creator John McAfee found dead in Barcelona prison cell after AN orders his extradition"Everything indicates that it could be a death by suicide," prison sources said.
Prison sources have confirmed that the American tycoon John McAfee, creator of the famous antivirus of the same name, has been found dead in the cell he occupied in module 1 of the Brians 2 Penitentiary Centre (Sant Esteve Sesrovires). He was seventy-five years old. This morning the Audiencia Nacional had finally given the go-ahead to extradite McAfee to the United States.
Justice reported that the prison guards and medical services immediately intervened to perform resuscitation manoeuvres, but in the end the doctors certified that he had died. "The judicial committee has gone to the prison and is investigating the cause of death. Everything indicates that it could be a death by suicide," they said in a statement.
McAfee was arrested in October at Barcelona's El Prat airport when he was about to catch a flight to Istanbul and has been in custody since then, after the court also rejected his latest request for release on the grounds that the "risk of flight continues to be evident" and that he has "no appreciable sign of roots".
The Audiencia Nacional had agreed to extradite John McAfee to the United States for alleged tax evasion for allegedly hiding high income between 2016 and 2018.
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