The millionaire British founder of security firm McAfee has been forcefully arrested in Belize following a drugs and weapons bust at his property.
John McAfee had his house in Orange Walk, Belize City, surrounded by armed guards on Monday. McAfee says they stormed his house, killed his dog and handcuffed him in the sun for 14 hours without food or water.
The 67-year-old, who founded the popular McAfee antivirus computer software, moved from America to Belize in 2008 after a series of lawsuits that threatened to wipe out his fortune.
The eccentric entrepreneur now runs an antibiotic drug company from the tiny central American country.
He said he was arrested because he refused to donate money to a local politician.
McAfee told Belize's News 5: 'On Monday at six o’clock, I was awakened by the sound of a bullhorn, a megaphone.
I went outside and saw about thirty GSU in full uniform, fully dressed, automatic weapons, storming through the property and driveway.
'I went back inside, got some clothes on, I came out. I was told to put up my hands up against the wall as were eleven other people in the compound.
'It began, innocently enough, with my refusal to donate to the local political boss of the district where I lived in Orange Walk and I have given at least two million dollars in gifts to the police departments in Orange Walk, San Pedro, Belize City.'
