Cybersecurity guru John McAfee — who was found hanged in his jail cell this week — had been hiding out for years in a Spanish “ghost

John McAfee hideout traced to Spanish ‘ghost hotel’ with a bitcoin farm

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2021-06-25 20:30:04

Cybersecurity guru John McAfee — who was found hanged in his jail cell this week — had been hiding out for years in a Spanish “ghost hotel” owned by a Russian who allegedly used it to run a secret bitcoin farm, according to reports.

The paranoid 75-year-old tycoon repeatedly sent out messages that he was in numerous places across the globe, including Belarus and Norway — the latter where he lied about being arrested for wearing a thong as a mask.

But web sleuths were constantly analyzing his images and messages — tracing him to a mysterious hotel in Cambrils in Catalonia, Spanish newspaper El Confidencial first revealed after his arrest last October.

Numerous tips — from images of beaches to Spanish products in his photos — tied him to having stayed at the Daurada Park Hotel, which the outlet called a “ghost hotel” where no one answers the phone and it is impossible to make reservations.

The Daurada had come under suspicion from local officials after a huge laser pointing at the sky was built on the roof soon after it was bought by an unidentified Russian businessman, the Diari de Tarragona had earlier revealed.