Outlandish tech titan John McAfee is currently on the run from police, who want to question him about the murder of fellow expatriate and neighbor Gregory Viant Faull, but he has remained in contact with the media.
He called CNBC’s Robert Frank and Brian Sullivan from inside his Belize compound today, saying “I had absolutely nothing to do with” the murder and “I did know him but just barely. We have spoken perhaps 50 words in five years.”
McAfee is currently wanted for questioning in the murder of Faull, who was gunned down at his home Saturday. Faull and McAfee were neighbors on Ambergris Caye in Belize.
McAfee shared what life is currently like on the lam. “You know, I don’t have a lot of freedom of movement. The food is not the best. I have no television, I would like a television.”
During the interview, McAfee admitted that some reports of his eccentricities are true, such as when he played Russian Roulette with a loaded gun. “As for the Russian Roulette, absolutely. But it was not true Russian Roulette, if you read the story, put a bullet in the chamber, put it to my head, clicked it dozens of times, walked outside fired into the sand, the bullet fired.”
McAfee said he would not seek refuge in the U.S. Embassy. “What would happen? They will offer me either sanctuary where I will spend my days living in the embassy like poor Julian Assange or when I leave … I will be nabbed by the police. My ultimate goal is they’ll figure out who killed the man, it will have nothing to do with me and they will leave me alone. Or if enough international pressure is applied,” he said.
He said he has no intention of leaving Belize, “I will continue to fight this…as long as I’m still breathing.”
“Are you prepared to die?” the host asked.
He replied: “Well obviously that’s what I think will happen if I am detained and that is certainly a possibility”