The computer specialist John McAfee was found dead today, June 23, in the cell where he had been in prison for 8 months, in Barcelona, Spain.
According to According to the information provided by the Spanish newspaper, El País, prison officials found McAfee hanging. The police sources consider the event to be a suicide, as there are no apparent indications of criminality. Even so, the autopsy is awaiting details of the incident.
Hours before the discovery, it had been confirmed that the businessman would be extradited to the United States to be tried on charges related to his tax returns between 2016 and 2018.
McAfee, founder of the antivirus company that bears his last name, had been arrested on 3 October last year in Barcelona, by order of the American justice. The reason for the arrest was for a millionaire tax evasion related to profits allegedly related to activities with cryptocurrencies.
Other charges against McAfee also weighed that , as reported by CriptoNoticias, could have led him to serve sentences of up to 20 years in prison , should he be found guilty.
Hard months for health physical and mental McAfee
The wife by John McAfee, Janice, published this Sunday a letter, for Father’s Day, in which she mentioned that “these 8 months that John spent in prison in Spain were especially hard on his health, both physical and mental.”
Several tweets that the businessman wrote named, in different contexts, the idea of suicide, in general, ruling out that possibility.
«I’m happy here. I have friends. The food is good. Everything is fine. Know that if I hang up, Epstein, it will not be my fault, “wrote McAfee on the aforementioned social network on October 15, a few days after his arrest.
Almost a year earlier, in November 2019, when he was still at large, the computer scientist had written: «I have been receiving subtle messages from officials Americans saying, in effect, “We’re going for you, McAfee! We are going to commit suicide ”. I got a tattoo today, just in case. If I kill myself, I didn’t. He was mad. Check my right arm. The tweet was accompanied by a photograph with that tattoo, which reads “ $ WHACKD ” .
WHACKD is the ticker of an erc-20 token created by McAfee whose name is Epstein Did Not Kill Himself (in Spanish, “Epstein did not kill himself”).
One of his last messages on Twitter published a week ago, made reference to your crypto holdings. “The United States thinks I have hidden crypto,” he wrote. Added McAfee: “I wish I had them, but they have been dissolved through the many hands of Team McAfee and all my remaining assets are seized.”
The last message written by McAfee on the microblogging network , on June 18, he says: «In a democracy, power does not exist. But it is still power. Love, compassion and affection are useless. But it is fuel for greed, hostility, jealousy … All power corrupts. Be careful with the powers that a democracy allows to exercise. ”
