John McAfee: Why is his body still in a Barcelona morgue a year after his death?

the body of the creator of McAfee computer antivirus He is still in a Barcelona morgue a year after his death in prison, while the Spanish justice decides whether to accept the family’s appeal to reopen the investigation that determined that he had committed suicide.

the corpse of John McAfee It continues in the deposit of the Institute of Legal Medicine of Barcelona, ​​sources from the Department of Justice of the region of Catalonia confirmed to AFP.

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There he was transferred shortly after the afternoon of June 23, 2021, when the body of the controversial businessman was discovered in his Brians 2 prison cell, about 40 kilometers from Barcelona. Everything pointed to an apparent suicide, and this was later confirmed by the only autopsy carried out so far.

His wife, however, never believed that mcafeethen 75 years old and to whom hours before his death the Spanish Justice had authorized the extradition to the United States, he would have taken his own life. For this reason, he requested more diligence, considering the first autopsy “incomplete”, as explained by his lawyer, Javier Villalba.

Given the refusal of the investigating judge, and in order to reopen the investigationthe family later filed an appeal that is still pending resolution at the Barcelona Provincial Court.

“A year ago today John McAfee was stolen from us. A leader in freedom & privacy, the world is a darker place without him,” Janice McAfee wrote on Twitter.

Accused in the United States of tax fraud, John McAfee made his fortune with the antivirus that bears his name in the 1980s. He later became a cryptocurrency guru and was followed by a million people on Twitter.

He was arrested in October 2020 at the Barcelona airport after the publication by a US attorney of an indictment against him for failing to declare millions of dollars in income from the promotion of cryptocurrencies, consulting services, conferences and rights sold for a documentary about his life.

The US authorities had issued an arrest warrant through Interpol and requested his extradition for crimes that, had he been convicted, would have faced a sentence of up to 30 years in prison.

Hours before his death, the Spanish justice had authorized his extradition, although he could still be appealed and had to be approved by the Spanish government.

It wasn’t the first time mcafee was involved in controversy. After the mysterious murder in 2012 of his neighbor in Belize, in a case that is still unsolved, the police discovered that the computer scientist lived with a 17-year-old girl and had weapons in her house.

mcafee he fled for months and in 2015 he was arrested in the United States for driving under the influence of drugs. In 2019 he left his country again.

Source: Elcomercio

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