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The antivirus software entrepreneur John McAfee has been found dead in his cell in Spain. Why was he in jail?

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The antivirus software entrepreneur John McAfee has been found dead in his cell in Spain. Why was he in jail?

Antivirus software entrepreneur John McAfee was wanted in the US for tax-related criminal charges that carry a prison sentence of up to 30 years. Hours after Spain’s highest court approved McAfee’s extradition to the United States on Wednesday, June 23, 2021, the 75-year-old creator of the McAfee virus software was found dead in his cell in Spain from an apparent suicide._x000D_

John McAfee bizarre fact:

_x000D_Since making a fortune in the 1980s with the software that still bears his name, McAfee twice made long-shot runs for the US presidency and became the subject of media scrutiny following the unsolved 2012 murder of a neighbor in Belize. Police found him living with a 17-year-old girl and discovered many weapons in his home in the Central American country.

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