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John McAfee was found dead after his extradition to the US was approved

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John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who’d had various late run-ins with the US law, died at 75. McAfee was anticipating extradition in a Spanish prison subsequent to being accused of tax evasion in the United States last year.

McAfee was discovered dead in his cell in a prison close to Barcelona on Wednesday around 1 p.m. ET and a medical examiner went to the scene, a representative for the Superior Court of Catalonia told CNN. She said the reason for death is being scrutinized.

An assertion from the Catalonia regional government Justice Department, which oversees prisons there, said that jail medical work force and guards endeavored to perform life-saving strategies in the wake of discovering McAfee, however were ineffective.

McAfee had a cell mate at the jail, yet that individual was not in the cell around the time that McAfee was discovered dead, a jail official, who asked not to be named, told CNN. The authority added the other individual was out doing other typical exercises at the jail.

McAfee was founder of the eponymous antivirus programming firm, with which he is not, at this point partnered to — was additionally prosecuted in March on separate fraud and money laundering charges. The US Department of Justice affirmed that he and a colleague took part in a scheme that acquired more than $13 million by erroneously promoting cryptocurrency to unwitting investors.

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