- Jan 24, 2011
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BBC News said:John McAfee, the founder of anti-virus software maker McAfee, has been arrested in Guatemala, accused of entering the country illegally.
He crossed the border to seek political asylum, having been on the run in Belize where police are investigating the death of his neighbour.
Belize officials said the software pioneer was a "person of interest" in the murder of Florida businessman Gregory Faull on 11 November.
Mr McAfee has protested his innocence.
He says on his blog that he has been "harassed" by police, and that this was the reason he fled Belize. There is no international arrest warrant for multi-millionaire fugitive.
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Guatemalan Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez Bonilla said Mr McAfee was arrested at a hotel in an affluent area of the capital, Guatemala City.
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