John McAfee has become a millionaire with an antivirus named after him, but it has been in the news in a less positive context in recent years. He was captured.

John McAfee’s escape from the authorities of cybersecurity contractors has come to an end: a scandalous hero who has been around for years accused of fraud and tax evasion has been caught by the police in Spain. According to the US Department of Justice. Engadget it also cites that McAfee is currently awaiting release.

With the antivirus that bears his name and crypto deals that have turned into a million dollar McAfee, the world has gotten big in recent years: Although he left the software company decades earlier, he remained on the covers of newspapers because of his tax evasion tricks and bohemian life. In one case, for example, he checked into his ship, machine gun in hand, to say the CIA was following him, so he wouldn’t be gambling for a while. The man, who went from being a developer to a businessman, was also briefly arrested in the Dominican Republic on suspicion of killing a man, but was later released.

The indictment, which was made public Tuesday, said McAfee, now 75, also received money to promote so-called ICO solutions (Initian Coin Offerin, a special type of blockchain-based community funding), but did not pay taxes after that. McAfee reportedly received $ 23 million worth of bitcoin and ethereum cryptocurrencies for the advertising business.

The cyber expert would be fired on ten charges, some of which would be imprisonment for several years, but in total up to 30 years in prison could be imposed.

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