BARCELONA, June 23 - British- born U.S. technological tycoon John McAfee was found dead by suspected suicide in a Barcelona jail after the Spanish high court approved his extradition to the United States on tax evasion charges.

McAfee's attorney, Javier Villalba, said the anti-virus application creator was found hanging; the anguish caused by his 9 months of captiviry driving him to suicide.

During a court hearing last month, McAfee, 75, said that given his age, he would spend the remainder of his life in prison whenever sentenced in the United States. "I am hoping that the Spanish court will see the injustice of this," he said, adding "the United States wants to use me as an example."

McAfee had lived for quite a long time on the run from U.S. officials, a portion of that time on board a megayacht. He was arraigned in Tennessee on tax evasion charges and was charged in a cryptocurrency fraud case in New York. 

He was apprehended on Oct. 3 at the Barcelona air terminal as he was on a trip to Istanbul with a British visa, a Spanish police source said.

McAfee worked for NASA, Xerox and Lockheed Martin prior to dispatching the world's first anti-virus 1987. He sold his product organization to Intel (INTC.O) in 2011 and not, at this point had any association in the business. The program actually conveys his name and has 500 million clients around the world. 

Spain's high court said on Wednesday it consented to extradite McAfee to the United States. The provincial equity division affirmed that a U.S. man matured 75 anticipating removal was discovered dead in his cell on Wednesday. Jail specialists were examining the reason for death. 

McAfee actually had freedoms to claim his conviction yet couldn't stand additional time in prison, Villalba said. 

"This is the result of a cruel system that had no reason to keep this man in jail for so long," Villalba said. U.S. investigators will probably ask the adjudicator regulating the tax avoidance case to excuse charges due to McAfee's demise. 

McAfee said in 2019 that he had not paid U.S. annual taxes for a very long time for philosophical reasons. That year, he left the United States to stay away from preliminary, generally living on a megayacht with his wife, four enormous canines, two safety officers and seven staff. 

He offered to assist Cuba with avoiding a U.S. exchange ban utilizing cryotocurrency and looked to run for U.S. president for the Libertarian Party. 

McAfee, who said in 2018 that he had fathered 47 children, lived in Belize for quite a while. He escaped after police looked for him for addressing in the 2012 homicide of a neighbor. They at last said he was not a suspect. 

He met his wife, Janice McAfee, when she solicitated him as a prostitute while he was on the run, he said. 

Janice McAfee said in a post on Twitter on Sunday, "Now the U.S. authorities are determined to have John die in prison to make an example of him for speaking out against the corruption within their government agencies... There is no hope of him ever having a fair trial in America."

McAfee was a productive user of Twitter, where he had 1 million followers, and other web-based media. 

He posted an obscenity bound video on YouTube in 2013 that derided the trouble of eliminating the product that bore his name from PCs. 

A number of cryptocurrency backers around the world on Wednesday posted tweets of condolence. In his last public tweet on June 18, McAfee wrote: "All power corrupts. Take care which powers you allow a democracy to wield."