The former Wimbledon champion, among five other Grand Slams, was found guilty earlier this month of concealing assets from his creditors, after going bankrupt in 2017. It is not the first time that the ‘German gets convicted for tax disorder.
Boris Becker, winner of six Grand Slam tournaments and one of the most iconic tennis players of the Open era, he has just been sentenced to two years and six months in prison due to four financial crimes he committed after going bankrupt in 2017. The conviction was handed down by a British court, the country where he has lived for several years.
Conviction released after a jury at Southwak Court found him guilty on April 8 of various financial crimes committed between June 21 and October 3, 2017 . The latter, after going bankrupt, hid assets and loans, valued at 3 million euros, from his creditors.
Becker went bankrupt in 2017 after failing to pay a €3.5m mortgage on a Mallorcan estate. As a result, he started hiding assets and property (such as a luxury villa in Leiman, Germany ) so that their creditors cannot take them back. As well hid a loan of 824,000 euros from a bank in Liechtenstein and a large part of his 75,000 euros obtained thanks to his participation in a Canadian company of Artificial Intelligence. According to British law, the former tennis player was obliged to reveal all these properties when he was bankrupt.
That’s why earlier this month a jury found him guilty on four counts. The prosecution accused him of transferring up to 460,000 euros from his accounts to other people, including his ex-wives Barbara and Lilly. .
Judge Deborah Taylor strongly criticized the actions of the former Wimbledon champion during sentencing. “You have lost your career and your reputation, along with your entire estate. It is remarkable that he showed no sign of remorse or acknowledgment of his guilt. I understand the humiliation you may have suffered throughout this process, but you have been unable to be humble. “commented the magistrate.
It must be remembered that Becker had previously been convicted of tax evasion in 2002 while in his native Germany he was fined nearly three million euros and given a two and a half year suspended prison sentence.
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