Ending His Life Because of Crypto?
The inventor of McAfee anti-virus software, John McAfee, the British man died in his prison cell where he was serving a criminal sentence for evading his tax obligations.
McAfee begged the court to reduce his sentence. Because, McAfee's calculations, with the threat of the sentence he is currently receiving, he will spend the rest of his life in prison. McAfee doesn't want that to happen.
McAfee himself, is planned to be extradited to America this year. This is because the cases he committed were all located in America. There are two major cases that ensnared McAfee. The first case is tax evasion in the state of Tennessee as mentioned. Meanwhile, the second case is cryptocurrency fraud in New York.
McAfee's confession made him hunted by law enforcement and American tax authorities. To avoid it, he spent the last few months living nomadically, moving from one place to another on the yacht he owned. One of the locations where he had lived while on the run was Belize where he allegedly committed murder.
When he was about to leave the salsa country for Istanbul, Turkey. Since then, John McAfee spent nine months in prison before taking his own life.