Former tennis star Boris Becker leaves UK prison to be deported

Former German tennis player Boris Becker has left the British prison where he was serving a sentence for financial crimes and must be deported, according to what was reported by the British News Agency, Thursday (15), which did not disclose the fate of the former player No. 1 in prison. Globalism. Baker, 55, a six-time Grand Slam champion who has lived in the UK since 2012, was found guilty in April of illegally concealing or transferring millions of euros and pounds to avoid paying his debts after declaring himself bankrupt.

The former tennis player, who spent a professional career from 1984 to 1999, was sentenced by a British court on April 29 to two and a half years in prison after being found guilty of concealing 2.5 million pounds (3 million US dollars). In principle, he was expected to serve half of his prison sentence before he could claim the parole advantage. Now, however, it appears that he will be expelled to Germany.

After declaring bankruptcy in 2017, Baker was convicted of charges including theft of assets, concealment of assets and concealment of debt. During the proceedings, the Public Prosecution announced that Becker had received 1.13 million euros from the sale of a Mercedes dealership he owned in Germany. The amount was deposited into a professional bank account which he used as a “personal piggy bank” to pay for luxury purchases and his children’s school.

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“Boris Baker’s conviction clearly shows that concealing assets in the context of bankruptcy is a serious crime, and we are prosecuting those responsible,” stressed the director general of the Insolvency Service, the British government body that oversees bankruptcies.

20 years earlier, Becker had already been sentenced to prison in Germany, and his application was suspended, due to problems with the tax authorities. British judge Deborah Taylor admonished the tennis player for failing to heed the warning that this first conviction should have meant for him. Then his lawyer, Jonathan Laidlaw, considered that Baker “could not find work and had to rely on other people’s charities to survive”.

The tennis player, who denied all charges, was acquitted of 20 other counts, including one involving the disappearance of his titles. He stated during the sessions that he did not know their whereabouts. He sold part of his prizes at auction for the sum of £700,000.

According to the former tennis player, the bankruptcy and treatment he received in the press damaged the “Baker brand”. He also had issues with the Spanish justice for unpaid debts related to the business at his home in Majorca and also with the Swiss justice, for not paying the priest who officiated his wedding in 2009.