The body of antivirus pioneer John McAfee has yet to be released from a Spanish prison more than seven months after his death, according to his family.
McAfee was arrested last October at the Barcelona airport on a warrant issued by Tennessee prosecutors who accused him of evading more than $4 million in taxes.
The 75-year-old software pioneer died on June 23, 2021, just hours after a Spanish court ruled that he could be extradited to the United States on the tax evasion charges.
However, his body is still in a “prison morgue freezer somewhere in or near Barcelona” as Spanish Judge Victor Espigares Jimenez, who is presiding over the investigation into McAfee’s cause of death is still probing the incident, his daughter, ex-wife, and lawyers told MarketWatch.
In the meantime, the software entrepreneur’s daughter and ex-wife are reportedly separately fighting for custody over his body.
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