Security software entrepreneur John McAfee passed away at the age of 75. According to Spanish media El Mund and El Pais, police found McAfee dead in a Barcelona prison from where he had been held for several months and was awaiting extradition to the US.
Early reports speak of a suicide while the true cause of death has not yet been determined.
Spanish authorities arrested McAfee at Barcelona airport in October 2020 following a lawsuit by federal prosecutors in the US over fraud and money laundering scandals.
Although notorious for creating the antivirus that bears his name today, in recent years, McAfee has received media attention for his problematic behavior. In 2012 while living in Belize at the time, he was accused of paying a killer $ 5,000 to eliminate his neighbor.
In 2019 he was arrested by the Dominican Republic while traveling on a yacht loaded with heavy caliber weapons and other military vehicles. / PCWorld Albanian