John McAfee: antivirus entrepreneur found dead in Spanish prison

McAfee's extradition to the US on tax charges had been approved hours earlier

The antivirus software entrepreneur John McAfee has been found dead in his cell in Spain from an apparent suicide, hours after the country's highest court approved his extradition to the United States, where he was wanted on tax-related criminal charges that carry a prison sentence of up to 30 years.

Catalan's regional police force, the Mossos d'Esquadra, confirmed a report in El Pais that McAfee, 75, had been found dead in the Brians 2 prison near Barcelona, late on Wednesday.