John McAfee arrested on US tax evasion charges

John McAfee arrested on US tax evasion charges




Anti-virus veteran John McAfee has been arrested in Spain on US tax evasion charges.


McAfee, who founded the anti-virus company of the same name but has had nothing to do with it since the 1990s, has kept in the news in recent years by…


…disguising himself as a Guatemalan trinket salesman while on the run from the Belize police who wanted to question him about a murder


…claiming he ran a team of 23 women to seduce and spy on his enemies in Belize…


…trying (and failing) to be chosen as a US Presidential candidate in 2016


…saying he would socially engineer a corpse to find out an iPhone passcode… and much more besides.




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In recent years, however, he seems to have put a lot of effort into promoting cryptocurrencies and ICOs on Twitter.


And that seems to have got John McAfee into a little bit of bother with the US Department of Justice, who today unsealed an indictment against him.


According to the indictment, ..

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