There are many crazy geniuses in the world, but he is their uncrowned king: Software entrepreneur John McAfee (69). He invented a world-renowned anti-virus software, but was more interested in alcohol, drugs, weapons, sold his company, was yoga instructor who immigrated to Belize from, came under suspicion of murder, was missing and allegedly broke – and was in the USA reported.
He has now again in trouble with the law. And it comes again to drugs and a gun.
Photo: Reuters
His mistaken new Story
The software millionaire – visually a mixture of senescent Rockstar and surfers – is now living in the small town of Lexington in the US state of Tennessee. There he runs again a company that specializes in protection against computer hackers.
become
Since its return to the US, it was fairly quiet at McAfee. Exceptions: His abandoned property in Belize burned down in May 2013, and shortly after he published a satirical video about his wild life. This has never been any case taken very seriously the 69-year-old.
Photo here in December 2012 in Miami: AFP
The best evidence: On Sunday McAfee was arrested by police because he was driving car under drug influence. Not only that, he sat with a gun at the wheel. . But McAfee remains calm, laughs when the police makes the usual picture of him
“I was struck, I must confess,” McAffee told the television channel CNBC to placate after: “I had received a prescription for Xanax (medication used to treat anxiety and panic) by the doctor in the morning. I had never taken it before. “Suddenly his phone between the seat and the center console of his car he had slipped. He tried it again hochzuholen. This his car had fallen to fishtail. The police became aware of him. Alcohol was not in the rest of the game.
<; alt = "ckgekehrt McAfee in Miami on 12.12.2012, fresh from Belize to the US to & # xFC" p> Photo: DAPD
McAfee gave it to to have had a gun in the car, but: “. This is not illegal in Tennessee ‘descriptions, he had with Police delivered a gunfight, he described as “fun”, which he did to a British reporter. Thus, the duck came into the world, McAfee had shot at the cops. CNBC joked the mistaken entrepreneurs against the fact that a sex video will relieve with his ex-wife with time stamp him of all charges. The police let him shortly after his arrest free again, McAfee is by his own admission “not really worried” about a possible penalty.
Photo: Imago
His life in the US Province is the crazy entrepreneur otherwise pleasant, tranquil. “They have a Wal-Mart (supermarket, d. Red.) And a Walgreens (drugstore), that’s all you need.” Why does he then take drugs? “I manage a very tense life. If you believe the stories that the government of Belize is after me, then you can imagine that it is a very stressful situation for me. “He look day and night from the window. “People think I am paranoid. Perhaps that is so. “His wife had therefore sent him to the doctor. “He further fear for his life.”
Photo: Reuters
This week McAfee’s life is even more stressful because he wants to present new products at a trade show in Las Vegas. Since then, he had sold his eponymous company to Intel, he was gone from the business press and become a case for the Boulevard
For a stir especially his anger in Belize made in 2012. In April his house was searched for illegal weapons possession and production of drugs. But it did not come to the indictment. In November, his neighbor was found dead, McAfee came under suspicion of murder, disappeared and wanted to Guatemala, which ended in failure. With his consent, he was expelled in late 2012 in the United States.
Whether not be damaging to his business around him his wrong stories about drugs and weapons, CNBC asked the entrepreneur. McAfee: “My life and the products of my life are two different things.”
Follow on Twitter BILD_LA
PS: Are you on Facebook? Become a fan of BILD.de-News!
No comments:
Post a Comment