The former tennis player, ex-numéro 1 world, was held eight months for financial offenses.
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After eight months in prison in the United Kingdom for financial offenses, former world number 1 Tennis Boris Becker found freedom on Thursday, December 15, and immediately took the way back to Germany.
Boris Becker, 55, “served his sentence and is not the subject of any criminal restriction in Germany,” said his lawyer, Christian-Oliver Moser, rejecting in advance, “for reasons of protection Privacy “, all questions about” his place of stay “. The former champion would have arrived in Munich on Thursday, in the middle of the afternoon, aboard a Cessna plane from the private jets Air Hamburg, according to the weekly Der Spiegel. The plane would have been chartered, according to British media, by an audiovisual company, whose name was not made public, which would have paid a generous sum so that it tells its story.
The Apple TV + platform must soon broadcast a documentary in which the former champion confides, but interviews, granted to other media, could be in preparation.
already condemned in Germany in 2002
The sexuple winner of Grand Chelem tournament, who had lived in the United Kingdom since 2012, had been convicted in April of having concealed or illegally transferred hundreds of thousands of euros and sterling books so as not to settle his Debts after 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 Press Association, Boris Becker was released on Thursday morning from Huntercombe prison, sixty kilometers west of London, because he was eligible for an expulsion as a foreigner sentenced to a Pain of more than twelve months in prison.
At the time of his bankruptcy in 2017, according to a series of bad things, the debts of the ex-superstar of tennis, younger winner of Wimbledon at 17, were estimated up to 50 million pounds sterling (58 million euros).
This affair is not the first for Boris Becker, with agitated sports retirement, who had lived in Monaco and Switzerland before setting up in the United Kingdom. He had already had legal setbacks for unpaid debts with the Spanish justice, concerning work in his villa in Majorca, and with the Swiss justice for not having paid the pastor who had married him in 2009.
In 2002, the German justice had sentenced him to two years in prison sentence as well as in 500,000 euros fine for some 1.7 million euros in tax arrears. This time, he was notably accused of having transferred hundreds of thousands of pounds sterling of a professional account to other accounts, in particular of his ex-wives, of not having declared a property in Germany and to have Hidden a loan of 825,000 euros and shares in a company.
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Boris Becker, Who disputed all of the charges, had, on the other hand, been acquitted of certain other counts, including those who concerned the disappearance of his trophies. He had assured the hearing that he did not know where they were. Among the nine distinctions on which the creditors would have liked to put their hands are two of its three cuts won at Wimbledon, two trophies from the Australian Open and its double gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games. The ex- Star explained during the trial, which was held from March 21 to April 8, still having in its possession “many” of awards and memories raised in fifteen years on the circuit, but some have disappeared. He had already sold part of his auctions for 700,000 pounds (840,000 euros) in order to mop part of his debts.