John McAfee, founder of the anti-virus software company, that bears his name, is being sought for questioning in the murder of a neighbor in Belize, local police said yesterday.
Cops want to talk to McAfee, 67 — who sold the company to Intel in 2010 for $7.7 billion — in connection with the death of Gregory Viant Faull, 52, who was found shot in the head in his home on the island of Ambergris Caye, according to Belize police spokesman Raphael Martinez.
The spokesman said that when the housekeeper discovered the California expat’s body Sunday, Faull’s computer and phone were missing.
Cops have questioned other neighbors, but McAfee was not home, the spokesman said.
Tech Web site Gizmodo reported that Faull filed a complaint against McAfee with the local mayor’s office last week, alleging that his neighbor had fired guns and shown “roguish behavior.”
The site said the men’s last disagreement “apparently involved dogs.”
Gizmodo said that McAfee seemed “increasingly erratic” in recent years and, “by his own admission, he had begun associating with some of the most notorious gangsters” in the Central American country.
The tech site said that in July 2010, McAfee began nine months of posts on a Russian drug message board saying he was trying to purify the psychoactive compounds known as the synthetic stimulant “bath salts.”
“I’m a huge fan of MDPV,” the Web site quoted McAfee as posting. “I think it’s the finest drug ever conceived, not just for the indescribable hypersexuality, but also for the smooth euphoria and mild comedown.”
With AP