A friend says John McAfee, who was once worth $ 100 million, went bankrupt when he died behind a bar in Spain.

Antivirus pioneer and tech outlaw John McAfee blew up $ 100 million worth of property in a ‘strange’ mansion and truly went bankrupt when he died in a Spanish prison, according to an author who worked with him. ..

Shortly before his death on June 23, McAfee tweeted that there was no money stashed and it was ‘nothing’. However, the US government was attempting to seize assets through tax evasion, and there were good reasons to hide the wealth. Avoidance.

As Spanish authorities discovered, McAfee’s property issues were directed to the federal government and his family, including his widow and stubborn supporter Janice, who says his death may not have been suicide. It’s very interesting.

Author Mark Eglinton, who has now collaborated with McAfee in a book for six months during his escape from authorities, cites McAfee’s personal experience with outlaws and in-depth interviews with him, making McAfee truly blunt . He tells DailyMail.com he believes it.

Eglinton said the following book, No Domain: John McAfee Tape, recorded extensive interviews with outlaws, and McAfee was unable to pay the amount requested for the planned collaboration.

“If he could help her, I wouldn’t doubt it,” Eglinton said of the modest prepaid fees he charged. He said, ‘I can’t do this, my financial situation is worse than yours. “

McAfee can be seen with his wife and stubborn supporter Janice. The US government was attempting to seize one of his assets, and questions revolved around his finances after his death.

McAfee’s giant $ 25 million Colorado complex (above) was auctioned off to Chicago commodities dealers in 2007 for just $ 5.72 million after a recessionary real estate crash.

Janice McAfee did not respond to a DailyMail.com request to comment on her late husband’s property, and her legal plans for the property were not released.

Eglinton said he has interviewed McAfee countless times on Skype since August 2019, while McAfee was on the run over fears that the United States could be prosecuted for overt tax evasion during his arrest last October. Said.

McAfee’s peak net worth is estimated to be around $ 100 million, mostly from the sale of shares in the anti-virus company he founded. McAfee sold its last stake in 1994.

Eglinton strongly refuted previous reports that McAfee claimed to have lost his property to poor stock selection during the Great Recession. “We’ve been to a lot of places he’s spent his money over the years,” he said.

Eglinton is the author of the next McAfee book, No Domain.

“He had the money on a very safe investment, but he built a house, an absolutely strange property,” said the Scottish author. “For some of them, he never slept in the country at night.”

McAfee owned mansions and resorts in various locations including Belize, Texas, Colorado, Hawaii, and Tennessee.

He sold some of these assets at huge losses, possibly due to liquidity issues, which reduced the value of their assets during the Great Recession.

For example, McAfee’s grounds in Woodland Park, Colo. Included a 10,000 square foot main building completely decorated with antiques from around the world. It was worth over $ 25 million, but was auctioned off to Chicago commodities dealers in 2007 for just $ 5.72 million.

Eglinton said McAfee told him, “$ 100 million I got from McAfee [Antivirus], it goes very quickly. ”

Initially, Eglinton, an experienced biographer and co-author who had previously collaborated with members of the Metallica and Pantera bands, suggested writing McAfee’s autobiography as a ghostwriter.

But as the work progressed, he said, McAfee was unable to pay the pre-requested amount to cover his costs before closing the book deal. Eglinton declined to say how much he asked for, but said it wasn’t a lot.

According to Eglinton, the collaboration failed when McAfee insisted on paying the publisher in cryptocurrency and refused to provide an address to post the contract.

Eglinton is currently the sole author of this book and will be published in December. “It’s John McAfee’s deep philosophy that surprises people about this book,” he said.

McAfee has long been mad about his finances in the face of an investigation into tax evasion charges that ultimately led to his arrest.

McAfee claimed in one of his latest tweets that there are no hidden assets

In 2014, McAfee sold a 5,800 square foot beachfront property on 5.3 acres in remote Molokai Hawaii. The house took seven years to build and has never moved.

In 2008, McAfee retired to this $ 500,000 resort in Belize. He burned to the ground in 2013 after fleeing the country when he was cross-examined for the murder of his neighbor Greg Fall.

The McAfee property in Belize has been rebuilt into a popular bar called John’s Escape.

In recent years, McAfee has reinvented itself as a cryptocurrency guru by speaking at conferences and promoting various services.

Federal prosecutors have denied that his cryptocurrency booster was also part of a fraudulent plan to pump and empty the coins he was holding.

But when McAfee’s wall was closed, Eglinton said he had no more opportunities to speak and that his friends and allies had abandoned him, making his financial situation very unstable.

In one of his latest tweets, McAfee wrote: I wanted to do it, but it was disbanded by many members of the McAfee team (you don’t need your beliefs) and all other assets were confiscated. My friend evaporated for fear of association. I have nothing. However, I do not regret anything. “

Eglinton says he thinks McAfee would have preferred to create wealth rather than falsely claiming extreme poverty.

“I think he was pretending to have it, not not to have it,” Eglinton said.

According to the indictment, U.S. prosecutors said McAfee made millions of dollars through “cryptocurrency promotion, employment counseling, engagement speeches and the sale of history rights to documentary life “in 2014. He accused him of not having filed a tax return from 2014 to 2018.

McAfee’s last US base was this $ 399,000 home in Lexington, Tennessee. We see him in 2016 with his wife Janice and their dog

Court documents claim McAfee owes the IRS a refund tax of more than $ 4.2 million. He will be seen racing in the Caribbean Sea at the Port of Havana in 2019

Court documents claim he owes the IRS a tax refund of more than $ 4.2 million.

Separately, the Securities and Exchange Commission complaint alleged that it was promoting the “early coin offering” of cryptocurrencies without revealing that McAfee had paid more than $ 23 million.

The indictment alleged that McAfee concealed his assets through complex schemes, such as maintaining a cryptocurrency account in another person’s name and concealing real estate and yachts in the name. from another person.

Now that McAfee is deceased, the criminal proceedings against him have been withdrawn, but the government can continue to track ownership by suing his property.

However, in order to proceed with long and certainly complex civil confiscation measures, the Spanish authorities must present a death certificate which has never been established publicly.

McAfee’s widow Janice said in a July 7 statement: “I have not received a death certificate, autopsy report or official prison report.”

“I understand that things will take time, but the lack of cooperation from the Spanish authorities only confirms our suspicion that they have something to hide,” she added.