“You can say I’m paranoid about it, but they will kill me, there is no question. They’ve been trying to get me for months. They want to silence me,” the magazine quoted McAfee as saying on its website. “I am not well liked by the prime minister. I am just a thorn in everybody’s side.”
The magazine reported that McAfee, 67, contacted one of its reporters by telephone after his neighbor Gregory Viant Faull, was found dead on Sunday in a pool of blood. The 52-year-old American was apparently shot in the head.
McAfee, who amassed a fortune by building the anti-virus company that bears his name, has homes and businesses in the Central American country where he has lived since 2008, acc o rding to Wired.
It was not the first time McAfee has drawn police attention.
His premises were raided in May after he was accused of holding firearms, though most were found to be licensed. The final outcome of the case is pending.