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The McAfee software founder was detained on Saturday when about
to board a flight to Istanbul with a British passport, a Spanish
police source said.
A judicial source said McAfee was then presented to a high court
judge through a video call and sent to prison without bail where
he will await the extradition process.
A third source, from the Catalonia region's justice department,
said he was in the Brians 1 jail, which opened in 1991 in an
industrial area 45 minutes by car from Barcelona. Some local
politicians have been jailed there for corruption.
After he was arrested, McAfee's official Instagram account
posted a "Free McAfee" message with a photo of him. The person
running the account did not return a message seeking comment.
No other representatives were immediately contactable.
U.S. federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment on Monday
against McAfee over charges that he evaded taxes and wilfully
failed to file returns.
That came shortly after the Securities and Exchange Commission
revealed it had brought civil charges against McAfee, alleging
he made over $23.1 million in undisclosed compensation from
false and misleading cryptocurrency recommendations.
He is alleged to have earned millions in income from promoting
cryptocurrencies, as well as through consulting work, speaking
engagements, and selling the rights to his life story for a
documentary.
(Reporting by Joan Faus, Inti Landauro, Emma Pinedo; Editing by
Ingrid Melander and Andrew Cawthorne)
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