By . Reuters Reporter, Beth Stebner and Thomas Durante . PUBLISHED: . 16:38 EST, 6 December 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 06:28 EST, 7 December 2012 . Anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee has been returned to his cell in a Guatemalan detention center after he rushed to a hospital over fears that he had suffered a heart attack. McAfee, 67, said that he was suffering from chest pains overnight but didn't think it was a heart attack. A doctor who looked him over him did not think it was a heart attack either, telling the Associated Press that McAfee's heart rhythm and blood pressure were normal and that he appeared to be suffering only from high stress. Scroll down for video . Heart attack: John McAfee was rushed to the hospital after suffering two minor heart attacks and experiencing chest pain all day . McAfee appeared unresponsive as reporters and photographers followed the stretcher into the emergency room. ABC News reported that as medical personnel moved McAfee to a bed and began to remove his clothes, he abruptly spoke up, saying, 'Please, not in front of the press.' Later on Thursday, however, McAfee was escorted back to his jail cell. The software company founder was 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 was moved from an immigration center to a police-run hospital Thursday afternoon after Guatemalan authorities said McAfee's request for asylum had been rejected. They did not explain why. Shortly after the decision was announced, McAfee issued a plea on his blog for the public to petition Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina to let him stay. Condition unknown: McAfee's lawyer said the former tech mogul had been experiencing chest pain all day . 'Please email the President of . Guatemala and beg him to allow the court system to proceed, to determine . my status in Guatemala, and please support the political asylum that I . am asking for,' the post read. McAfee's lawyer vowed to block Guatemalan efforts to remove the entrepreneur. McAfee was not taken to a hospital and posted on his blog during the morning hours. 'I don't think a heart attack prevents one from using one's blog,' said the lawyer, Telesforo Guerra. McAfee was detained by Guatemalan police on Wednesday for illegally sneaking across the border with his 20-year-old girlfriend to escape authorities in Belize. He has said he fears authorities in Belize will kill him if he returns. Hideout: McAfee pictured Thursday in a migrant shelter, where he is detained in Guatemala City . Bombarded: McAfee's lawyer, Telesforo Guerra, enters a migrant shelter, where Guatemalan authorities say McAfee is being detained today . Still, Guatemala's foreign minister, Harold Caballeros, said McAfee's request for asylum had been rejected. Police in Belize want to quiz McAfee as 'a person of interest' in the killing of fellow American Gregory Faull, with whom he had quarreled. But they say he is not a prime suspect in the probe. McAfee says he has been persecuted by Belize's ruling party because he refused to pay it around $2 million. Belize's prime minister denies this and has described McAfee, who made millions from the Internet anti-virus software that bears his name, as 'bonkers.' McAfee later lost much of his fortune and turned to a life of semi-reclusion by the beach. VIDEO: McAfee rushed to hospital after suffering heart attacks . Transfer: McAfee is transferred in an ambulance to the national Police Hospital in Guatemalan City . Prisoner: McAfee had been held at a Guatemalan immigration detainment shelter following his arrest after sneaking into the country . During an exclusive interview with the AP Thursday morning from inside his private room at the center, McAfee said he was refusing to travel to a hospital because he had been using Chinese herbal medicine since suffering a heart attack in 1993. 'Last night I had a little bit of pain, but I am fine this morning,' he said. 'I don't like Western medicine ... if the people around me are kind and compassionate, that's all that matters in life. The people of Guatemala are very kind people, so I have no complaints.' A couple of hours later, an AP reporter returned to McAfee's room and found him changed into a suit but lying on the floor as he was examined by a doctor. Shortly after, he was taken to the police hospital. Belizean police spokesman Raphael Martinez said officials expected McAfee to be flown back to his country's capital. Police want to question him about the fatal shooting of killing of Gregory Viant Faull, who was shot to death in early November on the Belize island where both men lived. Fugitive: McAfee left Belize with his 20-year-old girlfriend Sam Venegas after weeks of hiding out from authorities . Denied: McAfee was arrested this week by Guatemalan authorities and was later denied asylum there . Guerra wants to lodge an injunction against McAfee's arrest and said he should not be moved from the immigration shelter where he is staying until doctors had cleared his health. They had drawn blood and results are expected later on Thursday. After his arrest, McAfee spent the night in a cottage belonging to the immigration department. He passed much of the night reading his blog www.whoismcafee.com and posting his thoughts on a laptop he said was lent to him by the warden. One person asked him if he felt like committing suicide. 'I enjoy living, and suicide is absurdly redundant,' he wrote. 'The world, from the very beginning, hurls viruses, accidents, hungry animals, defective DNA - and uncountable more - in an attempt to kill us. It always succeeds. Suicide is simply aiding and abetting.' McAfee's earlier posts spoke of his relief at arriving in Guatemala, thinking he had found a way out of his troubles. Murdered: American Gregory Faul, 52, was found dead in his home in Belize last month; he and McAfee were neighbors . Grim task: Police officers carry the body of US citizen Gregory Viant Faull following his murder . Government spokesman Francisco Cuevas said on Wednesday the eccentric tech entrepreneur, who loves guns and young women and has tribal tattoos covering his shoulders, would be expelled to Belize within hours. However, an immigration department official later said immediate deportation had been ruled out. On the Caribbean island of Ambergris Caye, where McAfee has lived in Belize for about four years, residents and neighbors say he is eccentric and at times unstable. He was seen to travel with armed bodyguards, sporting a pistol tucked into his belt. The predicament of the former Lockheed systems consultant is a far cry from his heyday in the late 1980s, when he started McAfee Associates. McAfee has no relationship now with the company, which was sold to Intel Corp. McAfee was previously charged in Belize with possession of illegal firearms, and police had raided his property on suspicions that he was running a lab to produce illegal synthetic narcotics. He says he has not taken drugs since 1983. '(Before then) I took drugs constantly, 24 hours of the day. I took them for years and years. I was the worst drug abuser on the planet,' he told Reuters before his arrest. 'Then I finally went to Alcoholics Anonymous, and that was the end of it.' November 10: Gregory Viant Faull found dead at his home from gunshot wound to head . November 12: Belize police search for McAfee as a 'person of interest' in connection with his neighbor's murder. McAfee goes on the run . November 13: McAfee says he is at a 'safe location' in Belize after saying road blocks had been set up around house and police want to kill him . November 14: Blog posts reveal millionaire is a fan of the drug 'bath salts' November 15: McAfee says he has been donning disguises to avoid detection - as he still claims to be somewhere in Belize, unarmed with a young woman called Sam for company. Belize's prime minister urges him to turn himself in. November 17: Asks online community for help in preventing the police from tracking him via cellphone. November 18: McAfee claims he has been at home the entire time . November 19: Ex-girlfriend 'Francesca' reveals McAfee lives in constant fear and is paranoid . December 1: Reports that McAfee has been captured on the border of Mexico and Belize prove false . December 3: McAfee posts bizarre blog post saying that he has escaped Belize with the help of a 'body double' ruse in Mexico. Later Vice magazine posts picture of him with map coordinates in Guatemala - which McAfee immediately says has been faked  'for his own safety' December 4: McAfee is pictured dining in a hotel in Guatemala with his new lawyer. December 5: McAfee says he intends to stay in Guatemala .
John McAfee rushed to Guatemalan hospital after suffering two minor heart attacks .
Moved from immigration center to police-run hospital on Thursday afternoon after asylum request was denied .
Eccentric multi-millionare has been on the run since being named a suspect in murder of American man last month in Belize .
McAfee said Belize authorities will kill him if he returns to country .
By . Reuters Reporter, Beth Stebner and Thomas Durante . PUBLISHED: . 16:38 EST, 6 December 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 06:28 EST, 7 December 2012 . Anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee has been returned to his cell in a Guatemalan detention center after he rushed to a hospital over fears that he had suffered a heart attack. McAfee, 67, said that he was suffering from chest pains overnight but didn't think it was a heart attack. A doctor who looked him over him did not think it was a heart attack either, telling the Associated Press that McAfee's heart rhythm and blood pressure were normal and that he appeared to be suffering only from high stress. Scroll down for video . Heart attack: John McAfee was rushed to the hospital after suffering two minor heart attacks and experiencing chest pain all day . McAfee appeared unresponsive as reporters and photographers followed the stretcher into the emergency room. ABC News reported that as medical personnel moved McAfee to a bed and began to remove his clothes, he abruptly spoke up, saying, 'Please, not in front of the press.' Later on Thursday, however, McAfee was escorted back to his jail cell. The software company founder was 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 was moved from an immigration center to a police-run hospital Thursday afternoon after Guatemalan authorities said McAfee's request for asylum had been rejected. They did not explain why. Shortly after the decision was announced, McAfee issued a plea on his blog for the public to petition Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina to let him stay. Condition unknown: McAfee's lawyer said the former tech mogul had been experiencing chest pain all day . 'Please email the President of . Guatemala and beg him to allow the court system to proceed, to determine . my status in Guatemala, and please support the political asylum that I . am asking for,' the post read. McAfee's lawyer vowed to block Guatemalan efforts to remove the entrepreneur. McAfee was not taken to a hospital and posted on his blog during the morning hours. 'I don't think a heart attack prevents one from using one's blog,' said the lawyer, Telesforo Guerra. McAfee was detained by Guatemalan police on Wednesday for illegally sneaking across the border with his 20-year-old girlfriend to escape authorities in Belize. He has said he fears authorities in Belize will kill him if he returns. Hideout: McAfee pictured Thursday in a migrant shelter, where he is detained in Guatemala City . Bombarded: McAfee's lawyer, Telesforo Guerra, enters a migrant shelter, where Guatemalan authorities say McAfee is being detained today . Still, Guatemala's foreign minister, Harold Caballeros, said McAfee's request for asylum had been rejected. Police in Belize want to quiz McAfee as 'a person of interest' in the killing of fellow American Gregory Faull, with whom he had quarreled. But they say he is not a prime suspect in the probe. McAfee says he has been persecuted by Belize's ruling party because he refused to pay it around $2 million. Belize's prime minister denies this and has described McAfee, who made millions from the Internet anti-virus software that bears his name, as 'bonkers.' McAfee later lost much of his fortune and turned to a life of semi-reclusion by the beach. VIDEO: McAfee rushed to hospital after suffering heart attacks . Transfer: McAfee is transferred in an ambulance to the national Police Hospital in Guatemalan City . Prisoner: McAfee had been held at a Guatemalan immigration detainment shelter following his arrest after sneaking into the country . During an exclusive interview with the AP Thursday morning from inside his private room at the center, McAfee said he was refusing to travel to a hospital because he had been using Chinese herbal medicine since suffering a heart attack in 1993. 'Last night I had a little bit of pain, but I am fine this morning,' he said. 'I don't like Western medicine ... if the people around me are kind and compassionate, that's all that matters in life. The people of Guatemala are very kind people, so I have no complaints.' A couple of hours later, an AP reporter returned to McAfee's room and found him changed into a suit but lying on the floor as he was examined by a doctor. Shortly after, he was taken to the police hospital. Belizean police spokesman Raphael Martinez said officials expected McAfee to be flown back to his country's capital. Police want to question him about the fatal shooting of killing of Gregory Viant Faull, who was shot to death in early November on the Belize island where both men lived. Fugitive: McAfee left Belize with his 20-year-old girlfriend Sam Venegas after weeks of hiding out from authorities . Denied: McAfee was arrested this week by Guatemalan authorities and was later denied asylum there . Guerra wants to lodge an injunction against McAfee's arrest and said he should not be moved from the immigration shelter where he is staying until doctors had cleared his health. They had drawn blood and results are expected later on Thursday. After his arrest, McAfee spent the night in a cottage belonging to the immigration department. He passed much of the night reading his blog www.whoismcafee.com and posting his thoughts on a laptop he said was lent to him by the warden. One person asked him if he felt like committing suicide. 'I enjoy living, and suicide is absurdly redundant,' he wrote. 'The world, from the very beginning, hurls viruses, accidents, hungry animals, defective DNA - and uncountable more - in an attempt to kill us. It always succeeds. Suicide is simply aiding and abetting.' McAfee's earlier posts spoke of his relief at arriving in Guatemala, thinking he had found a way out of his troubles. Murdered: American Gregory Faul, 52, was found dead in his home in Belize last month; he and McAfee were neighbors . Grim task: Police officers carry the body of US citizen Gregory Viant Faull following his murder . Government spokesman Francisco Cuevas said on Wednesday the eccentric tech entrepreneur, who loves guns and young women and has tribal tattoos covering his shoulders, would be expelled to Belize within hours. However, an immigration department official later said immediate deportation had been ruled out. On the Caribbean island of Ambergris Caye, where McAfee has lived in Belize for about four years, residents and neighbors say he is eccentric and at times unstable. He was seen to travel with armed bodyguards, sporting a pistol tucked into his belt. The predicament of the former Lockheed systems consultant is a far cry from his heyday in the late 1980s, when he started McAfee Associates. McAfee has no relationship now with the company, which was sold to Intel Corp. McAfee was previously charged in Belize with possession of illegal firearms, and police had raided his property on suspicions that he was running a lab to produce illegal synthetic narcotics. He says he has not taken drugs since 1983. '(Before then) I took drugs constantly, 24 hours of the day. I took them for years and years. I was the worst drug abuser on the planet,' he told Reuters before his arrest. 'Then I finally went to Alcoholics Anonymous, and that was the end of it.' November 10: Gregory Viant Faull found dead at his home from gunshot wound to head . November 12: Belize police search for McAfee as a 'person of interest' in connection with his neighbor's murder. McAfee goes on the run . November 13: McAfee says he is at a 'safe location' in Belize after saying road blocks had been set up around house and police want to kill him . November 14: Blog posts reveal millionaire is a fan of the drug 'bath salts' November 15: McAfee says he has been donning disguises to avoid detection - as he still claims to be somewhere in Belize, unarmed with a young woman called Sam for company. Belize's prime minister urges him to turn himself in. November 17: Asks online community for help in preventing the police from tracking him via cellphone. November 18: McAfee claims he has been at home the entire time . November 19: Ex-girlfriend 'Francesca' reveals McAfee lives in constant fear and is paranoid . December 1: Reports that McAfee has been captured on the border of Mexico and Belize prove false . December 3: McAfee posts bizarre blog post saying that he has escaped Belize with the help of a 'body double' ruse in Mexico. Later Vice magazine posts picture of him with map coordinates in Guatemala - which McAfee immediately says has been faked  'for his own safety' December 4: McAfee is pictured dining in a hotel in Guatemala with his new lawyer. December 5: McAfee says he intends to stay in Guatemala .
Anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee has been the hospital after suffering two minor heart immigration center to a police-run hospital Thursday afternoon after Guatemalan authorities has said he fears authorities in Belize will kill him if he returns. Hideout: McAfee pictured the beach. VIDEO: McAfee rushed to hospital after suffering heart attacks . Transfer: McAfee is was found dead in his home in Belize last month; with his neighbor's murder. McAfee goes on the