The United States has accused the founders of the anti-virus company McAfee of fraud and money laundering through cryptocurrencies. He faces decades in prison. John McAfee has been detained in Spain since last year, where he is being charged. Criminal offenses And waiting for its release to the United States.
He is being prosecuted along with his adviser Jimmy Watson. In 2017 and 2018, they were to commit fraud with the cryptocurrency system Pump and dump, I.e., by adding value to the product by increasing the value and selling it at a profit to the detriment of others.
They put two million dollars in a cryptocurrency fraud (not directly with Bitcoin) and made one thirteen million in a few months. They created a parallel initial marketing plan (ICO) and withheld payments from investors. At the same time, John McAfee pretended to misuse his name and to lure other users to blood symptoms through a Twitter account, claiming that he had nothing to do with them. He is now defending himself on Twitter.
Most of the Fed’s new allegations are about my “currency of the day”. For a few days in 2017 I chose coins that I believed were worth it.
One of them is Doz – now spoken by Elon Musk many years later. The currency has increased more than 1000% since I chose.
Not a pump and dump.
– John McCaffey (ficofficialmcafee) March 7, 2021
There are seven offenses against him. Each faces between 5 and 20 years in prison. The entire court document can be read online Justice.gov.
John McAfee founded the Defense Company of the same name and left in 2004. In 2011, McAfee bought Intel 7 for $ 7.7 billion, and John was not even allowed to start a new company in his own name. However, McAfee is still more associated with the brand plotware because Intel is promoting it on all newer computers in the trial version. It is no secret that John was practically not interested in antivirus under his own name.
Source: bleepingcomputer