John McAfee, founder of the anti-virus company, is on the run for killing another US citizen in a resort town, Belizean police said.
Police raided McAfee’s mansion on Ambergris Caye, an island off the northeastern coast of Belize, late on Sunday to question him about the murder of American Gregory Faull. But McAfee was nowhere to be found, the head of the country’s anti-organised crime brigade, Marco Vidal, said on Monday.
Vidal said McAfee was wanted for homicide.
But McAfee told the US magazine Wired that he was in fact hiding on the property at the time, burying himself in the sand with a cardboard box over his head in order to breathe.
“It was extraordinarily uncomfortable,” he said. “But they will kill me if they find me.”
Vidal’s officers searched McAfee’s mansion several months ago looking for weapons and drugs, and detained him for several hours.
McAfee claims he was arrested at the time because he refused to make a donation to a local politician’s campaign.