In another tweet from only eight months ago, McAfee also compared himself to Jeffrey Epstein who was also found dead from an apparent suicide in his prison cell.
"I am content in here. I have friends. The food is good. All is well," he wrote in October 2020.
"Know that if I hang myself, a la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine."
McAfee's death was reported just hours after Spain’s National Court approved his extradition to the US, where he is wanted on tax-related criminal charges that carried a prison sentence of up to 30 years.
The decision could have been appealed and the final extradition would have needed to be approved by the Spanish Cabinet.
McAfee sold his antivirus company to Intel for $7.7billion in 2011.
He developed early internet security software and has been sought by authorities in the US and Belize in the past.
McAfee was arrested on October 3 of last year at El Prat airport in Spain, as he was about to flee the country to Turkey.
That same month, McAfee was charged in Tennessee with evading taxes after failing to report income made from promoting cryptocurrencies while he did consulting work, made speaking engagements, and sold the rights to his life story for a documentary.
The Tennessee indictment said McAfee failed to file tax returns from 2014 to 2018, despite receiving "considerable income" from those sources.
The indictment did not allege that the tech boss received any income in relation to McAfee Associates.
In a hearing held via videolink earlier this month, McAfee argued that the charges against him were politically motivated and said he would spend the rest of his life in prison if he was returned to the US.
Back in March, McAfee was also charged over a $13million cryptocurrency "scam" after allegedly luring victims on Twitter. |