After eight months in prison in the United Kingdom for financial offences, the former tennis world no. PA.
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The latter did not specify the destination of “Boom Boom Becker”, but everything suggests that it is his country, Germany. His mother Elvira Becker, 87, called his long-awaited return to the country the “best Christmas present”, the tabloid The Sun reported on Tuesday.
The 55-year-old six-time Grand Slam winner, who has lived in the UK since 2012, was found guilty in April of concealing or illicitly transferring hundreds of thousands of euros and pounds to avoid settling his debts following being declared bankrupt.
He had been sentenced to two and a half years in prison by a London court, but only served eight months.
According to PA, which does not cite sources, Boris Becker was released from Huntercombe prison, regarding 60 miles west of London, on Thursday morning because he was eligible for deportation as a convicted foreigner. a sentence of more than 12 months in prison.
According to British media, he should return to Germany on a private jet chartered by the audiovisual company, which paid a generous sum to tell his story.
At the time of his bankruptcy in 2017, following a series of bad deals, the debts of the ex-tennis superstar, the youngest winner of Wimbledon at 17, were estimated at up to 50 million pounds sterling (59 million euros).
This case is not the first for Boris Becker, a restless sportsman, who had lived in Monaco and Switzerland before settling in England.
He has already had legal setbacks for unpaid debts with Spanish justice, concerning work in his villa in Mallorca, and with Swiss justice for not having paid the pastor who married him in 2009.
In 2002, the German courts sentenced him to a two-year suspended prison sentence and a fine of 500,000 euros for some 1.7 million euros in tax arrears.
This time, he was notably accused of having transferred hundreds of thousands of pounds sterling from a professional account to other accounts, in particular of his ex-wives, of not having declared property in Germany and of having hid a loan of 825,000 euros and shares in a company.
Boris Becker, who disputed all of the charges, had on the other hand been acquitted of certain other charges, including those relating to the disappearance of his trophies.
He had assured the hearing that he did not know where they were.
Among the nine accolades creditors would have liked to get their hands on are two of his three Wimbledon cups, two Australian Open trophies and his doubles gold at the 1992 Olympics.
The ex-star indicated during the trial which was held from March 21 to April 8 to still have in his possession “many” of the awards and memories amassed in 15 years on the circuit, but some have disappeared.
He had already sold part of his awards at auction for 700,000 pounds (840,000 euros) in order to pay off part of his debts.