McAfee Seeking Asylum in Guatemala

ON THE RUN

Updated Apr. 21, 2017 2:39PM EDT / Published Dec. 04, 2012 7:17PM EST

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Time for a new round of “Where in the World is John McAfee?” The 67-year-old anti-virus software pioneer, a person of interest in the November murder of an American on the island of Ambergris Caye, has fled to Guatemala and is seeking political asylum there. McAfee and his 20-year-old girlfriend left Belize, where his lawyer said he was “persecuted politically because he stopped financing the government.” McAfee, who is accompanied by journalists from Vice magazine, said he will hold a news conference on Wednesday about his travails.

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McAfee Seeking Asylum in Guatemala

JOHAN ORDONEZ / AFP