BELIZE CITY, Thurs. June 24, 2021– Computer genius and antivirus software pioneer, John McAfee reportedly died in a prison cell in Barcelona, Spain, on Wednesday afternoon. An initial investigation indicated that he could have died by suicide.

McAfee, who had resided in Belize for a number of years on the island of San Pedro, was being sought by Belize’s Police Department in connection with the death of his neighbor, Gregory Faull, on the island back in 2012.

He was never questioned or charged for the crime in Belize, since he reportedly fled through the Belizean jungles and absconded to Guatemala before being detained by authorities.

McAfee later showed up back in the United States and was sued by the family of Gregory Faull and found liable in Florida.

McAfee subsequently left the US and traveled to Europe, where an order for his extradition back to the US was approved by Spain’s National Court in Madrid earlier this week.

Last October he was arrested in Spain after being found guilty of tax evasion for three separate tax years, 2016, 2017, and 2018, and of promoting a cryptocurrency scam that yielded almost 13 million dollars. The amount of taxes he owed to the United States was not specified.

The Associated Press reported that McAfee called the charges against him “politically motivated” during a virtual hearing in a Spanish court earlier this month.

The last 20 years of McAfee’s life were unusual. After fleeing Belize to avoid being implicated for the death of his neighbor, he spent some time in Guatemala before moving to Montreal. He later worked on a documentary project chronicling his life and ran for president of the United States in 2017 as a Libertarian. Hoping for a comeback on the technology front, he had announced the launch of a new security software which he had called a “f—ing game changer”.