Antivirus software creator John McAfee charged with cheating investors

John McAfee (Alan Diaz/AP)

Antivirus software entrepreneur John McAfee has been charged with fraud and money laundering amid claims he and his business contacts made more than 13 million dollars by fooling investors over the emerging cryptocurrency market, authorities said.

The 75-year-old was charged in a newly unsealed indictment in Manhattan federal court along with Jimmy Gale Watson Jr, who served as an executive adviser on what prosecutors described as McAfee’s “so-called cryptocurrency team”.