John McAfee claimed US Government were after his ‘hidden cryptocurrency’ while pals had ‘evaporated’ before jail death
ANTI-VIRUS software mogul John McAfee reportedly claimed the US government was after his "hidden cryptocurrency" and complained his pals had evaporated.
The 75-year-old, who was found dead yesterday in a Barcelona prison cell hours after a Spanish court agreed to extradite him to the US on tax evasion charges, said he had "nothing" and that he was suffering from "loneliness".
But a week before his death, McAfee tweeted that he no digital currency assets squirrelled away.
He said: "The US believes I have hidden crypto.
Three days before his death, Janice also alleged people wanted him dead.
"I know John is an extremely polarizing individual. Believe me, I know this better than most!" Janice wrote in the lengthy note.
"But I also know, as well as any of you who follow him on Twitter, that he has always been honest about who is is. ALWAYS. Sometimes too honest, sometimes sharing more than any of us cared to know about him!
"John’s honesty has often gotten him in trouble with corrupt governments and corrupt government officials because of his outspoken nature and his refusal to be extorted, intimidated, or silenced," she claimed.
"Now the US authorities are determined to have John in prison to make an example of him for speaking out against corruption within their government agencies."
Federal prosecutors accused antivirus software company founder and his “cryptocurrency team” advisor Jimmy Watson, 40, of orchestrating fraudulent schemes to rake in millions of dollars from cryptocurrency investors.
In the “scalping” scheme, McAfee and his team allegedly bought large amounts of cheap cryptocurrency altcoins, then aggressively touted them online with “false and misleading endorsement tweets” to artificially boost their market prices.
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The Department of Justice alleged: "McAfee Team members collectively earned more than $2 million in illicit profits from their altcoin scalping activities."
McAfee and Watson and the rest of his team earned "more than $11 million in undisclosed compensation that they took steps to affirmatively hide"from investors, the grand jury indictment claimed.
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