A judge from Martorell (Barcelona) agreed on Friday to the transfer of the body of John McAfee, founder of the anti-virus program of the same name, to the United States after the court in Barcelona confirmed that he committed suicide in Brians 2 prison in 2021. in Sant Esteve de Sesrovires (Barcelona).
As the Supreme Court of Catalonia (TSJC) reports, the head of Martorell’s Investigative Court No. 5 today informed the widow that she is allowing the transfer to the widow of the body of McAfee, who committed suicide in prison in June 2021 75 years old after learning that he would be extradited to the United States for tax fraud.
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The judge initially closed the case into McAfee’s death on the grounds that the procedures she had ordered indicated that there was no evidence of third-party involvement and that he had committed suicide. However, the widow appealed to the Barcelona court, which forced the judge to postpone authorizing the removal of the body from the premises of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of Catalonia in Barcelona until the appeal was successful.
Finally, last August, the Ninth Department of the Barcelona Court confirmed the filing of the lawsuit regarding McAfee’s death – in a ruling that was no longer subject to appeal – and concluded that it was suicide and that “there is no evidence “Be sure that the goal is “nothing else.”
In view of this situation, the public prosecutor’s office has advocated that the investigating judge authorize the provision of the body so that it can be returned to the United States. So the judge has already approved this and told the widow that she can dispose of MacAfee’s remains.
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McAfee was arrested at Barcelona’s El Prat airport in October 2020 while preparing for a flight to Istanbul and has been in preventive detention since then. During the extradition hearing, the businessman, whose tax debts in the US totaled more than $4 million, claimed he had paid “millions of dollars in taxes” and said he was a victim of political persecution for reporting corruption in the agency. Tax.
He was found dead in his cell on June 23, 2021, the same day that the national court announced its decision to extradite him to the United States for alleged tax evasion.
For the court in Barcelona, all reports submitted – such as the forensic results of the autopsy, the police report, photos of the body or the records from the prison itself on the day of the events – which confirm that he had no contact with another inmate – are correct agreed that “there is no evidence of anything other than a suicide death.”
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