How the man who founded software giant McAfee lost his fortune and ended up hiding from police
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John McAfee arrested in Belize after police 'claim he is running a meth lab'
Millionaire on the run: How the man who founded software giant McAfee lost his fortune and ended up hiding from police in Belize after they 'rousted him from the bed of a 17-year-old and shot his dog because he's running a meth lab'
He was the man who made millions by creating one of the world's most successful internet security firms.
John McAfee - co-founder of McAfee - had for many years enjoyed the lavish trappings of wealth afforded by his $100m fortune.
But, in an extraordinary fall from grace, the 66-year-old is today in hiding in Belize after his home was raided for allegedly harbouring illegal drugs and weapons and - according to authorities - running a 'meth lab'.
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Millionaire on the run: How the man who founded software giant McAfee lost his fortune and ended up hiding from police in Belize after they 'rousted him from the bed of a 17-year-old and shot his dog because he's running a meth lab'
John McAfee was once worth $100million but lost nearly all his fortune and moved to Central America in 2008
Belize security claim he had illegal weapons and drugs and that he was arrested with 17-year-old girl
In post on private messageboard, McAfee says he has not left his hideout for five days and only has three DVDs and an iPad - without a charger
His lawyers tell him he has nothing to be concerned about but Mr McAfee says 'that makes me very worried'
He was the man who made millions by creating one of the world's most successful internet security firms.
John McAfee - co-founder of McAfee - had for many years enjoyed the lavish trappings of wealth afforded by his $100m fortune.
But, in an extraordinary fall from grace, the 66-year-old is today in hiding in Belize after his home was raided for allegedly harbouring illegal drugs and weapons and - according to authorities - running a 'meth lab'.
John McAfee, the founder of the anti-virus company that bears his name at his former home in Rodeo, New Mexico is on the run from authorities in Belize after being accused of operating a meth-lab
The arrest is the culmination of a bizarre new chapter in the life of the former multimillionaire who fled the U.S. after the fortune he made from his internet security software was in danger of being wiped out by a series of lawsuits and the financial crash.
The tattooed tycoon - born in Britain and raised in the U.S. - had tried to build a new life by starting an antibiotics firm in the tiny Central American country and is rumoured to have set up home with a 17-year-old girl.
But earlier this month his new venture fell apart when he was arrested because he - he claims - he refused to donate money to a local politician.
John Mcafee's beachfront compound in Belize where he has lived since 2008 after leaving the United States
This is the dog that was owned by McAfee that he claims Belize's Gang Suppression Unit shot
Now he has resorted to protesting his innocence by posting on the internet from a secret location.
McAfee's arrest completes an astonishing turnaround in the life of a man who was once viewed as one of the great success stories of the technological age.
After his company suffered setbacks, the yoga lover moved to Belize in 2008 and then launched a bidto make antibiotics from jungle plants. As of 2009 his fortune, once valued at $100million, had fallento $4million.
That year he finished liquidating his U.S. real estate holdings which included 280-acres in Colorado, a beachfront estate in Hawaii, properties in Arizona and Texas, and a ranch in Rodeo, New Mexico.
He had long since left the company that bore his name, having cashed out of the antivirus company that bore his name in 1994.
Pictured are some of the weapons that Belize's Gang Suppression Unit claim they recovered from McAfee's home
He has had a series of much-younger girlfriends and followed his passions, saying in 2007, 'Success for me is, Can you wake up in the morning and feel like a 12-year-old?'
But this week he revealed his current legal ordeal at the hands of security forces who shot dead his dog, seized his passport and left him handcuffed for 14 hours in the sun without food and water.
He was separated from his current girlfriend, who is rumoured to be 17-years-old.
They then placed him in a squalid prison cell where he had to sleep on the floor with four others, the technology site Gizmodoreported.
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'Having spent one night already sleeping on the concrete floor of the Belize City jail I am not excited about the prospect of returning', Gizmodo quoted him as saying on a private messageboard.
Mr McAfee said there were no beds in prison and a milk carton served as a toilet for everybody - until a drunk entered the cell at 1am and kicked it over.
Revealing that he had not left his one-room hideout for five days, Mr McAfee posted that he had no cable or satellite TV, no books and just three DVDS - The Human Stain, Tierra and Naked.
He had an iPad but no charger, so was 'rationing' its use.
Whereas the device's remaining charge was at 21 per cent at the start of the post, he revealed it was down to only 17 per cent when he logged off.
Judy McAfee is John's estranged wife and helped him launch his anti-software virus firm in the late 1980's
'For those of you who follow the news in Central America, you will know that I am in hiding in an undisclosed location in Belize,' said Mr McAfee.
'Hiding out is no fun. I've always wondered why people on the run turn themselves in in many cases.
'I now know the answer - boredom.'
In an interview with Belize's News 5on May 2, Mr McAfee described the raid on his home in Orange Walk, Belize City, two days before.
He said he was woken up at 6am by the sound of bullhorns.
'I went outside and saw about 30 GSU [Belize's Gang Suppression Unit] in full uniform, fully dressed, automatic weapons, storming through the property and driveway.
'I went back inside, got some clothes on, I came out. I was told to put up my hands up against the wall as were eleven other people in the compound.
'It began, innocently enough, with my refusal to donate to the local political boss of the district where I lived in Orange Walk and I have given at least $2million in gifts to the police departments in Orange Walk, San Pedro, Belize City.'
The GSU said they found a cache of weapons at McAfee's property and that he did not have a licence to manufacture drugs.
In a statement, the GSU said: 'Present on the premises at the time were John McAfee, his girlfriend who is a 17-year-old Belizean minor and five security guards.
'During the search ten firearms - seven 12-gauge pump action shotguns, one 12-gauge single action shotgun, one Taurus nine-millimetre pistol and one nine-millimetre CZ pistol were found.'
Tropical: John McAfee, founder of the anti-virus software firm, moved to Belize in 2008
Five air rifles and 270 12-gauge cartridges were also found, officers said.
In the private messageboard post seen by Gizmodo, Mr McAfee said the GSU have since issued additional charges 'but have not divulged what they might be'.
He added: 'My lawyers tell me there is absolutely nothing to worry about, so that makes me very worried.'
The Gizmodo site reported Mr McAfee as saying the original warrant produced when authorities searched his home claimed he was operating a meth lab.
John McAfee worked for Lockheed Martin in the mid-1980's before turning his hand to developing the world's first marketable anti-virus software in the late 1980's
Mr McAfee told the site: 'In the Third World such a thing is a serious crime - the drug companies don't particularly like people interfering with their business.
'But basically what I developed is a topical antiseptic. That's what they claimed was my meth lab.'
But Gizmodo said Belize government officials would not confirm that they had accused Mr McAfee of running a meth lab 'or even that there was a raid, for that matter'.
'We spent hours on the phone trying to find out what happened, bouncing from one police official to another.'
Eric Heyden, public affairs officer for the American Embassy in Belize, told Gizmodo: 'I don't have any general information about his case.
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'I am as perplexed and confused as you are as to why the Gang Suppression Unit would be taking action about a private American citizen.'
Mr McAfee grew up in England but moved to America as a child.
He developed antivirus computer programmes and in 1989 started working full-time at McAfee Associates, which he ran from his home in Santa Clara, California.
Mr McAfee floated the company in New York in 1992 and had sold up completely by 1994 - making about £70m.
He later moved into property development and taught yoga.
One of the enthusiasts of the new sport was director Ang Lee (centre sitting), the director of 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon' and he is shown the ropes by John McAfee (second left)
After a series of lawsuits threatened to wipe out his fortune, Mr McAfee fled to Belize in 2008, which is on the Caribbean coast, and tax free.
He lost much of his money in the financial crash, and his wealth reportedly declined from $100million (£62million) to less than $4million.
Before he left his home in New Mexico, McAfee sold off a 280-acre estate in Woodland Park, Colorado, a 5-acre beachfront estate on Molokai, Hawaii; and other properties in Arizona and Texas.
Several were sold at auction, including the last to go, his ranch in Rodeo, New Mexico.
Working on a starting an antibiotics firm in the tiny Central American country of Belize, McAfee is rumoured to be seeing a 17-year-old girl
McAfee also faced a huge lawsuit over the death of a novice pilot who crashed after taking off from McAfee's ranch.
As he became a Belize resident, he could secure his remaining assets there, safe in the knowledge that the country would not recognise any court judgement passed down from a US judge.
Certainly, people who visited him on the island said he did not seem that impoverished, and that he had set up a high-speed ferry company, a rickshaw firm, a water sports facility and an internet company.
But McAfee claims he moved to Belize because he had a passion for developing medicines based on the herbs found in the rainforests, including a herbal viagra for women
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John McAfee, the founder of the anti-virus company that bears his name at his former home in Rodeo, New Mexico is on the run from authorities in Belize after being accused of operating a meth-lab
John Mcafee's beachfront compound in Belize where he has lived since 2008 after leaving the United States
This is the dog that was owned by McAfee that he claims Belize's Gang Suppression Unit shot
Pictured are some of the weapons that Belize's Gang Suppression Unit claim they recovered from McAfee's home 
Judy McAfee is John's estranged wife and helped him launch his anti-software virus firm in the late 1980's
Tropical: John McAfee, founder of the anti-virus software firm, moved to Belize in 2008
One of the enthusiasts of the new sport was director Ang Lee (centre sitting), the director of 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon' and he is shown the ropes by John McAfee (second left)
Working on a starting an antibiotics firm in the tiny Central American country of Belize, McAfee is rumoured to be seeing a 17-year-old girl 
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