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John McAfee's legacy: Tech maverick, eccentric businessman, fugitive

A Spanish court had approved his extradition to the United States to face charges of tax evasion.

McAfee had been in Spanish custody since October on a June 2020 U.S. indictment in which he was charged with failing to file four years of tax returns while concealing assets.
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McAfee had been in Spanish custody since October on a June 2020 U.S. indictment in which he was charged with failing to file four years of tax returns while concealing assets. (Photo: Bloomberg)

BS Web Team New Delhi
John McAfee, the tech genius whose eponymous antivirus software was used widely in the 1980s and early 1990s, died in Barcelona jail cell on Wednesday.

The 75 years-old was found dead after a Spanish court approved his extradition to the United States to face charges of tax evasion from 2014-2018, reported Bloomberg.

A larger than life personality of McAfee and his run-ins with law inspired numerous projects surrounding his life. He was born in the United Kingdom in the mid-1940s, and moved to Roanoke, Virginia, when he was young.

He moved to Silicon Valley in the 1970s and worked in