{"id":572005,"date":"2021-06-23T16:07:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T20:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=572005"},"modified":"2021-06-23T16:07:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T20:07:35","slug":"breaking-anti-virus-millionaire-john-mcafee-found-dead-from-suicide-in-spanish-prison-hours-after-extradition-order-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-anti-virus-millionaire-john-mcafee-found-dead-from-suicide-in-spanish-prison-hours-after-extradition-order-report\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Anti-Virus Millionaire John McAfee Found Dead From Suicide In Spanish Prison, Hours After Extradition Order: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbreaking-anti-virus-millionaire-john-mcafee-found-dead-from-suicide-in-spanish-prison-hours-after-extradition-order-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=572005&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-851202376-e1624477466511.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>According to reports, tech entrepreneur John McAfee \u2014 and founder of the McAfee antivirus software company \u2014 has died by suicide in a Spanish jail cell while awaiting extradition to the United States on various financial charges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Police sources told Spain\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/economia\/2021-06-23\/el-fundador-del-antivirus-mcafee-john-mcafee-se-suicida-en-una-prision-de-barcelona.html?ssm=TW_CC\">El Pais<\/a> newspaper that McAfee was found dead in his cell in Barcelona\u2019s Brians prison, located in Sant Esteve de Sesrovires, with the Catalan Department of Justice reporting that \u201ceverything points to a suicide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The news comes just hours after a Spanish court agreed to extradite McAfee to the United States, where he faced financial charges including tax-evasion, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/23\/eccentric-tech-mogul-john-mcafee-will-be-extradited-to-us\/\"><span>The New York Post<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe extradition was approved by the high court in the country and revealed in a court filing on Wednesday that was reviewed by Reuters,\u201d The Post noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/anti-virus-software-mogul-john-mcafee-arrested-in-spain-charged-for-hiding-cryptocurrency-yacht\"><span>The Daily Wire<\/span><\/a><span> reported in October that McAfee had been arrested \u201cand charged with tax evasion, allegedly earning millions in income from promoting cryptocurrencies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The indictment alleged that McAfee, 75 at the time, evaded U.S. taxes by having his income \u201cpaid into bank accounts and cryptocurrency accounts in the names of others, while also using the names of others to conceal ownership of property and assets including a yacht,\u201d CNN <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/10\/05\/tech\/john-mcafee-tax-evasion-sec-cryptocurrency\/index.html\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span> in October.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As The Daily Wire stated, \u201cThe Justice Department (DOJ) announced the charges after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it has filed civil charges against McAfee, alleging he made more than $23 million in undisclosed compensation by recommending seven cryptocurrency offerings on Twitter that the SEC claims were false or misleading.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMcAfee leveraged his fame to make more than $23.1 million in undisclosed compensation\u201d by recommending at least seven initial coin offerings (ICOs) to his Twitter followers, the SEC said. He tried to sell \u201cvirtually worthless\u201d cryptocurrency tokens by urging investors to buy the securities without disclosing his own holdings, the SEC alleged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The DOJ also claimed that McAfee did not file tax returns from 2014 to 2018. McAfee \u201cfaces five years in prison on each count of tax evasion and a maximum of one year for each count of willful failure to file a tax return,\u201d CNN reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cPrison sources have confirmed that the American tycoon John McAfee, creator of the famous homonymous antivirus, has been found dead in the cell he occupied in module 1 of the Brians 2 Penitentiary Center (Sant Esteve Sesrovires). He was seventy-five years old,\u201d reported Spanish news outlet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elmundo.es\/tecnologia\/2021\/06\/23\/60d38594e4d4d8c47b8b4699.html\">El Mundo<\/a>. \u201cThis morning the National Court had finally given the go-ahead to extradite McAfee in the United States.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It was \u201creported that the surveillance professionals and the prison medical services have intervened immediately to practice resuscitation maneuvers, but finally the doctors have certified the death,\u201d El Mundo added, according to the translated report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe judicial procession has traveled to the prison and is investigating the causes of death. Everything indicates that it could be a death by suicide,\u201d they said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, tech entrepreneur John McAfee \u2014 and founder of the McAfee antivirus software company \u2014 has died by suicide in a Spanish jail cell while awaiting extradition to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281136,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-851202376-e1624477466511.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"BREAKING: Anti-Virus Millionaire John McAfee Found Dead From Suicide In Spanish Prison, Hours After Extradition Order: Report","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-851202376-e1624477466511.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"BREAKING: Anti-Virus Millionaire John McAfee Found Dead From Suicide In Spanish Prison, Hours After Extradition Order: Report","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}