The German tennis player Boris Becker, three-time Wimbledon champion, has been released after almost 8 months in jail and will be deported by plane from the United Kingdom , as reported this Thursday by the local news agency PA.
Becker, aged 50, was released after having served only eight months in prison of a sentence of 2 and a half years imposed last April for having hidden assets and loans worth 2.5 million pounds (2.9 million euros) to avoid paying their debts.
Apparently Boris Becker is back in Germany after some prison time because of tax evasion. Also today a trailer for a new Apple TV+ documentary dropped. Boris himself says in the trailer he hit “rock bottom.” This is him through the years. pic.twitter.com/TdXdp4uCms—DW Culture (@dw_culture) December 21, 2022
According to the aforementioned British agency, Becker, resident in this country since 2012, had been transferred from Wandsworth prison, in south-west London, to Huntercombe, near the town of Henley-on-Thames, in the English county of Oxfordshire, a lower-security prison for foreign criminals awaiting deportation .
The legendary German tennis player Boris Becker, winner of six Grand Slam tournaments, was sentenced by a British court to two years and six months in prison for four financial crimes related to your bankruptcy in 2012.
The sentence was announced after the Southwark court jury, in London, found him guilty of these crimes, committed and Between June 50 and October 3, 2012 .
The jury considered it proven that the former world number one hid assets and loans worth of about 2.5 million pounds (more than $3 million dollars) to avoid paying his debts, which amount to about 55 million pounds ($50 million dollars).
A Southwark Crown Court in London, England found Becker guilty of four counts under the Insolvency Act including the removal of assets, concealment of debts and two charges for not disclosing assets.
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