With these operations, he is alleged to have pocketed $23 million (€19.5 million). According to the US stock market watchdog, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the businessman used Twitter to promote the purchase of cryptocurrencies among his followers without making it clear that he was making money from this. What’s more, he was also accused of buying other assets in the name of third parties, among them a yacht. The investigation by the US public prosecutor claims that McAfee evaded millions of dollars with the promotion of cryptocurrencies and the sale of rights for the publication of his biography between 20. The next day, October 4, he was taken into custody in the Brians prison, where he was found dead. From that point onward, officers focused their efforts on Spanish airports, before arresting him at El Prat at 9.30am when he was due to fly to Istanbul. A photo that he himself published on social media helped to locate him in the area.
After an investigation by the National Police, investigators discovered that he had traveled to Germany, from where he had returned on a private jet that landed in the airport in Reus, in Tarragona.
The businessman regularly spent time in Tarragona, in Catalonia. McAfee was detained in Spain after a notification was sent out from Interpol, who had included him on their list of most-wanted people after a request from the United States. In recent years, McAfee had regularly claimed that there was a conspiracy against him. The court ruled out that McAfee was being prosecuted for “political, ideological or similar issues,” because “further than the verbal allegations” of the antivirus company founder, he had not provided any evidence to back this claim. The US public prosecutor claims that McAfee evaded millions of dollars with the promotion of cryptocurrencies and the sale of rights for the publication of his biography
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