Why John McAfee’s body is still in a Barcelona morgue seven months after his death

the corpse of John McAfeecreator of the famous computer antivirus, who committed suicide at the end of June last year in his cell in a Barcelona prison, is still in the mortuary in the Catalan capital waiting for the judge investigating his death to agree on repatriation .

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According to legal sources, McAfee’s body cannot be handed over to his relatives until decided by the judge investigating whether the creator of the antivirus took his own life in prison, a hypothesis that was questioned by his family.

the mortal remains mcaffee They were transferred after their death to the mortuary of the Institute of Legal Medicine, in the City of Justice of Barcelona, ​​and have remained since then in one of the refrigerators, according to information advanced by the MarketWatch digital portal.

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mcafeewho was 75 years old, was found dead in June 2021 in the cell he occupied in a Barcelona prison, the same day that the Spanish National Court announced its decision to extradite him to the United States for alleged tax evasion.

A court in the town of Martorell (Barcelona) opened an investigation to determine the causes of death, and the programmer’s family, who doubted that he had taken his own life, requested that a second autopsy be performed on the body, and days later the hypothesis of suicide was confirmed.

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McAfee had been arrested in October 2020 at the Barcelona airport when he was about to catch a flight to Istanbul and since then he has been in preventive detention.

During the extradition hearing, the businessman, whose tax debt in the United States amounts 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 denounced corruption in the agency. tax.

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Source: Elcomercio

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