According to the reports, John McAfee’s dead body is still present in a Spanish morgue even a year after his death. John McAfee was also accused of running a drug cartel. He was a true advocate of cryptocurrency and even said that this is going to be the future. He was all in for a decentralised form of currency.
Who is John McAfee?
John McAfee was a British – American businessman, a computer programmer. Alongside, he stood two times for the presidential candidate from Libertarian party in US elections but was unsuccessful.
Additionally, McAfee was the first person to write commercial antivirus software in 1987. He developed McAfee associates for selling his creations.
Why was John McAfee arrested?
In October 2020, John McAfee was arrested under U.S. tax evasion charges in Spain.
The U.S. federal lawyer implied criminal and civil charges while accusing him for not paying income tax for past four year period.
However, on 23rd June 2021, McAfee was found hanging in the prison cell in Spain. After few hours from Spanish court approved his extradition to the US, the Spain prision cell officials found John McAfee dead.
The prison is located in Sant Esteve Sesrovires in Barcelona.
Later, the prision authorities claimed that he had attempted to kill himself beforehand whereas, even the postmartum reports claims his death a suicide case.
Janice McAfee commences online petition against Spanish authorities –
However, his family didn’t want to accept the officials comments.
His widow wife Janice McAfee mentions that, ‘It’s difficult to put into words what life has been like this past year’. Additionally, she called up the Twitter users for an online petition which says, ‘to help pressure’ Spanish authorities to release McAfee’s remains.
Also his family didn’t believe on the autopsy report, says, it is incomplete. So they demanded another check but the following demand was refused by the late entrepreneur’s lawyer Javier Villalba on Wednesday.
