McAfee Ditangkap di Guatemala karena Masuk secara Ilegal

McAfee Arrested in Guatemala for Entering the Country Illegaly

Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Parulian Manalu


McAfee Ditangkap di Guatemala karena Masuk secara Ilegal
John McAfee setelah ditangkap di Guatemala (Foto: ABC News)

TAIPAN software eksentrik John McAfee, yang dicari di Belize terkait penembakan tetangganya hingga tewas, akhirnya tertangkap di Guatemala karena memasuki negara tersebut secara ilegal, kata jaksa Guatemala kepada ABC News.

Sebelum tertangkap, McAfee kepada ABC News dalam sebuah wawancara khusus menyatakan ia ingin mencari suaka di Guatemala.  McAfee ditangkap oleh polisi imigrasi negara Amerika Tengah dan bukan polisi nasional, kata pengacaranya, yang yakin kliennya akan dibebaskan dalam beberapa jam.

"Puji Tuhan, saya berada di tempat yang waras," kata McAfee, 67, sebelum ditangkap. "Saya memilih Guatemala."

McAfee mengaku bahwa di Guatemala, penduduknya tidak terkejut ketika ia menyatakan pemerintah Belize memburunya untuk dibunuh.

Namun McAfee mengaku tidak mengesampingkan kemungkinan kembali ke Amerika Serikat, di mana ia menghasilkan kekayaan sebagai penemu anti-virus, dan meskipun kehilangan banyak harta ia masih memiliki lebih banyak uang daripada yang pernah dihabiskannya.

McAfee buron dari polisi Belize sejak pembunuhan tetangganya pada 10 November lalu, ekspatriat asal Amerika, Greg Faull.

Selama tiga minggu buron, kata McAfee, ia menyamar sebagai penyandang cacat, tujuh kali mengecat rambut dan bersembunyi di berbagai tempat.

ECCENTRIC software tycoon John McAfee, wanted in Belize for questioning in the shooting death of his neighbor, has been arrested in Guatemala for entering the country illegally, his Guatemala attorney told ABC News.

Before McAfee´s arrest, he told ABC News in an exclusive interview he would be seeking asylum in Guatemala. McAfee was arrested by the Central American country´s immigration police and not the national police, said his attorney, who was confident his client would be released within hours.

"Thank God I am in a place where there is some sanity," said McAfee, 67, before his arrest. "I chose Guatemala carefully."

McAfee said that in Guatemala, the locals aren´t surprised when he says the Belizean government is out to kill him.

But McAfee added he has not ruled out moving back to the United States, where he made his fortune as the inventor of anti-virus software, and that despite losing much of his fortune he still has more money than he could ever spend.

McAfee has been on the run from police in Belize since the Nov. 10 murder of his neighbor, fellow American expatriate Greg Faull.

During his three-week journey, said McAfee, he disguised himself as handicapped, dyed his hair seven times and hid in many different places.