...this is how
The Independent formulates it:
"Like a persistent computer virus, wherever John McAfee pops up, trouble seems to follow."
The British-American entrepreneur behind the
McAfee anti-virus software has been evicted from his apartment in
Portland,
Oregon, and accused of stalking by the building’s property manager.
The news comes almost a year after Mr McAfee, 68, fled his previous home in
Belize (see also:
The John McAfee Story), in Central America, to escape being questioned by local police about the killing of his American neighbour,
Gregory Faull.
The stalking complaint was filed by
Connor Hyde, the superintendent of the building where Mr McAfee took an apartment earlier this year. Mr Hyde, a property manager for the
Riverstone Residential Group, claims Mr McAfee sent him threatening emails and accused him of involvement in a conspiracy with Mr Faull’s family.
According to
The Oregonian, Mr Hyde, who no longer works at the building in question, feared that Mr McAfee had access to firearms and associated with members of a biker gang.
In an interview with the
Associated Press, Mr McAfee said he had not been evicted and insisted that he “never threatened anybody, except with threats of lawsuits”.
He had a “severe problem” with Mr Hyde due to “wilful lapses of security”, Mr McAfee said, adding that Mr Hyde “gave keys out to all of his friends and friends of friends… People were partying in vacant condos. It’s turned into a nightmare ever since the new owners purchased the building four months ago”.
A Portland judge granted a
temporary protective order against Mr McAfee, who dismissed it as meaningless because, he said, he moved to
Montreal in Canada two months ago. The tech guru also said he would not attend the hearing scheduled for January 3rd 2014.
Mr McAfee founded his anti-virus firm McAfee Associates in 1987 and sold his stake seven years later for an estimated $100m. The company was later sold to
Intel for more than $7.6bn, while in 2009 its founder claimed to have lost the majority of his fortune during the financial crisis.
Four years ago, Mr McAfee moved to Belize for tax reasons, became an avid yoga practitioner and established a small biotechnology research facility where, he said, he was developing new varieties of antibiotics.
In April 2012, police raided the facility and arrested Mr McAfee on suspicion of producing
methamphetamine, though the charges were quickly dropped.
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| Chrystal Meth... |
On 11 November 2012, Mr Faull, a divorced sports bar owner from
Florida, was found shot dead at his home nearby. He and Mr McAfee had reportedly argued about several matters, including the level of noise from Mr McAfee’s compound. The day before the murder, Mr McAfee’s dogs were poisoned.
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Mr McAfee, who denies any involvement in Mr Faull’s death, dyed his hair as a disguise and fled Belize to avoid being questioned by the local authorities, whom he accused of corruption. While staying in neighbouring
Guatemala, he met with a reporter and photographer from
Vice Magazine who planned to chronicle his life on the lam.
But tragicly they gave away his location by posting a photo of Mr McAfee online without first wiping its location data.
Mr McAfee was accused of crossing the border from Belize illegally and spent a week in jail in Guatemala before flying (my expression fits better:
fleeing) to the United States.
In a bid to clear his name, John McAfee has offered a $25,000 reward for information about Mr Faull’s death. Police in Belize said Mr McAfee remains a
“person of interest” in their investigation into Mr Faull’s death.
The country’s Prime Minister,
Dean Barrow, has described Mr McAfee as “extremely paranoid, even bonkers”.
Source:
The Independent
