John McAfee: Arrests, Guns, Ships and No Taxes in the Crazy Life of the Antivirus King

Like a virus, John McAfee has not stopped mutating and wreaking havoc in his wake.

The founder of the homonymous company, arrested at the El Prat de Llobregat airport for tax evasion among other alleged crimes, when he was heading to Istanbul, has led a life as strident and changeable as his hair dyes.

Among all his recent projects, the businessman has underlined his interest in cryptocurrencies, especially with regard to the possibilities offered by these currencies

s digital when it comes to tax avoidance, a behavior that he publicly boasts of and has supported in his last

, through the Libertarian Party.

Indeed, in his country there is no record of any statement to the Treasury between 2014 and 2018, one of the reasons why Justice claims it. McAfee's life gives for one or more films, and precisely the

is among the charges for which the authorities have detained the businessman in Barcelona.At the beginning of 2019, McAfee acknowledged that he is not accountable to the treasury, a "war" against government revenue that was publicized through his account of Twitter

In this social network he defines himself as "iconoclast", as well as "lover of women, adventure and mystery" and one last point that should not be overshadowed, that of "founder of McAfee antivirus". Born in the United Kingdom but raised In Virginia, the hitherto fugitive from American Justice is the architect of the best-known antivirus company on the planet, which

with a predilection for pistols and the Caribbean countries.

The CIA has attempted to collect us.

We are at sea now and will report more soon.

I will continue to be dark for the next few days.

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- John McAfee (@officialmcafee)

July 19, 2019

Months after the aforementioned allegation

on-line

, McAfee manifested again on the deck of a ship that the CIA was following in his footsteps, this time armed.

They arrested him in the Dominican Republic, but he ended up free.

McAfee's adventures have not ceased since then and he has continued to narrate them through social networks, perhaps with more data than necessary when

last week he admitted to being in Spain to supervise the construction of ... a wrestling court in the mud

.

From NASA to the Caribbean

This 75-year-old mathematician began to work as a programmer for NASA, but left the aerospace industry aside when his capabilities proved especially useful in the face of the first appearances of computer viruses: he found protection from

software

against Brain, one of the first threats to the MS-DOS operating system, and McAfee decided in 1987 to launch his own project, McAfee Associates.

Even today, if you rummage through your desk drawers, you may find a CD-ROM with his signature. In 1994 he left the company, although his last name was already present on the computers of thousands of companies and homes;

soon, it would begin to appear in the chronicles of events as well.

The heaviest

One of the cases that have weighed on this runaway entrepreneur is the murder of his neighbor in Belize,

in 2012, an accusation that led him to leave what was then his country of residence.

The victim, Gregory Viant Faull, apparently had a domestic scuffle with McAfee, due to the heavy presence of guards and security dogs around the businessman's home.

In Belize there was the headquarters of one of the latest companies launched by McAfee, QuorumEx, focused on viruses but from a biosanitary point of view. McAfee has pleaded not guilty and has also been the subject of a smear campaign by the Belizean authorities.

In the computer scientist's opinion, he had always been in the spotlight, since

hackers

from all over the world wanted to boast of having mocked any

software

wearing the prestigious McAfee seal.

A movie murder with Morgan Freeman?

The aforementioned murder, which is analyzed in a documentary that could be made on the North American chain Showtime, led the businessman to search

refuge in Guatemala with his partner, several decades younger, and the occasional company of reporters from the magazine

Vice

.

However, a photo taken by them with an iPhone revealed the metadata that could have been used for the agents to find McAfee's whereabouts in that Central American country.

Went to Spain this weekend to check the progress of the Mud Wrestling Arena Im building.

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- John McAfee (@officialmcafee)

September 28, 2020

With so many shock scenes, such a character was supposed to lead to a

biopic

, and rumors spoke of Zac Efron in the role of McAfee, who stated that he preferred Morgan Freeman to play him.

The project has been repeatedly postponed and seems to be a dead letter, perhaps because of the protagonist's constant flight forward, an adventure now halted in Barcelona.With a admittedly addictive personality, McAfee has declared living in Tennessee, where he also suffered an arrest in 2015 for alleged driving under the influence and, again, in possession of a firearm.

A year after the episode in the Dominican Republic, McAfee has returned to the police station, and it has happened in Spain.

The National High Court has already agreed to enter prison without bail

of the millionaire, awaiting his extradition to the US, where the Justice claims him for alleged illicit income in the promotion of cryptocurrencies and in the sale of the audiovisual rights of this unique life.

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