The body of John McAfee, founder of the antivirus that bears his name, who committed suicide in the Brians 2 prison in Sant Esteve de Sesrovires (Barcelona) in June 2021 in accordance with the conclusion of the Barcelona Court, has been delivered this Thursday to his family.
As reported by the Department of Justice, the delivery of McAfee’s body took place at 3:15 p.m. this afternoon through funeral services, following the usual forensic protocols.
The body of the founder of the antivirus, who committed suicide at the age of 75 upon learning that he was going to be extradited to the United States for tax fraud, was at the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Catalonia since June 23, 2021. , where it has been preserved in a freezing chamber in the facilities of this center.
At the end of last October, the Martorell court authorized the transfer of McAfee’s body to the United States, and finally, and at the request of the family, the delivery took place this afternoon.
The death of the founder of the antivirus occurred after learning that he was going to be extradited to the United States for tax fraud.
McAfee was arrested in October 2020 at El Prat airport in Barcelona when he was preparing to take a flight to Istanbul and has been in preventive detention since then.
During the extradition hearing, the businessman, whose tax debt in the United States amounted to more than four million dollars, claimed to have paid “millions of dollars in taxes” and said he was the victim of political persecution for having reported corruption in the agency. tax.
On June 23, 2021, he was found dead in his cell, the same day that the National Court announced its decision to extradite him to the United States for alleged tax evasion.
The Martorell judge initially filed the case regarding McAfee’s death considering that the procedures she had ordered indicated that there were no indications of the participation of third parties and that he had committed suicide.
However, the widow appealed to the Court of Barcelona, ??which forced the judge to postpone authorizing the removal of the body from the premises of the Institute of Legal Medicine of Catalonia, in Barcelona, ??until the appeal was successful.
Finally, the ninth section of the Barcelona Court confirmed last August the filing of the case regarding McAfee’s death – in a resolution that could no longer be appealed -, concluding that it was a suicide and that “there are no indications” that aim for “nothing different.”
