By Ron Howells • Updated: 31 Mar 2023 • 12:19
John McAfee was found dead of apparent suicide on Wednesday.
AntiVirus Creator John McAfee Found Dead In Catalan Prison Cell.
American billionaire tycoon John McAfee, known for creating antivirus software, has been found dead in his Catalan prison cell, his death being confirmed by prison sources. The inmate’s death comes a day after the Supreme Court approved his extradition to the United States for alleged tax crimes committed between 2016 and 2018.
The well-known computer scientist was arrested in October last year at Spain’s El Prat airport and has been in the Sant Esteve Sesrovires jail (Barcelona) ever since. Whilst being held captive there, a search and arrest warrant from the United States was placed on him.
That same month, McAfee was charged in Tennessee with evading taxes after failing to report income made from promoting cryptocurrencies while he did consulting work, made speaking engagements and sold the rights to his life story for a documentary.
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Update: 22:00 CET
John McAfee reportedly killed himself after he was set to be extradited to the United States. The 75-year-old tech mogul took his own life while being held in a prison cell in Barcelona, according to local paper El Pais.
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Ron actually started his working career as an Ophthalmic Technician- things changed when, during a band rehearsal, his amplifier blew up and he couldn’t get it fixed so he took a course at Birmingham University and ended up doing a degree course. He built up a chain of electronics stores and sold them as a franchise over 35 years ago. After five years touring the world Ron decided to move to Spain with his wife and son, a place they had visited over the years, and only bought the villa they live in because it has a guitar-shaped swimming pool!. Playing the guitar since the age of 7, he can often be seen, (and heard!) at beach bars and clubs along the length of the coast. He has always been interested in the news and constantly thrives to present his articles in an interesting and engaging way.
queue all the conspiracies about how he was actually murdered. .. oh wait there isn’t any political narrative to be proven by it so nobody will bother.
queue all the know-nothings pretending they know anything about conspiracies or politics.
Cue the old dudes, passive aggressively arguing over ******* nothing
Guys, it’s “cue,” as in, “cue the band.” I say this not to be pedantic, but in hopes that you might pause and wonder whether your lack of knowledge regarding common English words could signal a certain overconfidence in your opinions regarding current events and global conspiracies. I am not hopeful about this, but you have an opportunity to prove me wrong and perhaps buck a societal trend. Best wishes, believe it or not, John
To be fair, maybe the first guy wants to line up conspiracies, and the second guy wants to line up the know-nothings.
Usually when I use the word pedantic I receive a look of befuddlement. (=
Lmao
As an American, I am disgusted by what has happened to our justice system. A country’s jurisdiction, especially tax laws, should end at its borders. It is a telling comment on America when people would rather commit suicide than face the American trial system, or the cruel and unusual hell-holes of our jails. People who are not brutal animals when they go in are that way when they get out. Most Americans do not want to defund the police, they only want to curb the practice of putting people in this sort of situation. People killing themselves rather than go to court in America is far more common than reported by the media, who often don’t mention the connection.
BS.
dang
RIP, computer legend.
How is this “News”?? “Person sent to a killing death machine institution dies” lmao who woulda thought it huh? Lmao 🙄🙄 /insert sarcasm /insert rolling eyes
Interesting to know more about this if true he took his life. If he is in fact a billionaire why would someone not just make a deal and regain freedom? Even if you had to go down to a few million wouldn’t it be worth it to be free again? Something doesn’t make sense.
Billionaire tycoon? A basic Google search reveals net worth peaking at around $100m.
Rest of the story is likely equally accurate.
Is it possible that he could be alive and amused reading these comments, feeling proud of successfully faking his own death?
he´s not rich enough and he probably hasn´t been to Epstein Island. Last August my friend called the jail where jizz-laine maxwell was allegedly being held and was on the call for about 10 minutes. they said that they had no record of her being held anywhere in the US prison system……
Maybe he was a naughty boy and didn´t do what the corporates told him to do. perhaps he had a brain and asked questions, you know that´s not allowed these days…..
Strangely I have just been sent a video of John McAfee before he was arrested saying that he had compiled a dossier of information about (global) government corruption and that if he dies or disappears then 31 terrabytes of information will be released. Looks like there might be some some people in trouble out there before too long……..
Link to video?
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