GUATEMALA CITY — Software company founder John McAfee was hospitalized briefly Thursday after being denied political asylum in Guatemala, and his lawyers said they were making a last-ditch effort to keep him from being flown back to Belize for questioning about the killing of a fellow American expatriate.
McAfee told The Associated Press that he suffered chest pains overnight but didn’t believe he had a heart attack.
McAfee was moved from an immigration center to a police-run hospital Thursday afternoon after Guatemalan authorities said his request for asylum had been denied.
He was released from the hospital and taken back to the detention center Thursday night.