Tennis Champion Boris Becker Jailed Over Bankruptcy

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Formal Wimbledon champion Boris Becker has been sentenced for two and half years for hiding £2.5m worth od assests and loans to avoid paying debts.

Boris Becker six time Grand Slam champion was found guilty of four charges under the insolvency Act. This case was centered in June 2017 over Becker's bankruptcy resulting from unpaid loan of more than £3m on his luxury estate in Mallorca, Spain. There was no remorse or acceptance of guilt said Judge Deboorah Taylor. The Jury found the Wimbledon championThe jury found Becker had failed to declare his share in a sprawling £1m property in his German hometown of Leimen, and hid a bank loan of almost £700,000 on that house, as well as shares in a technology firm valued at £66,000

He was also found to have made £390,000 worth of payments from his business account to nine others, including those of his ex-wife Barbara and estranged wife Sharlely "Lilly" Becker.

Becker's barrister Jonathan Laidlaw QC told the court the tennis star's "fall from grace" had left "his reputation in tatters". He said: "Boris Becker has literally nothing and there is also nothing to show for what was the most glittering of sporting careers and that is correctly termed as nothing short of a tragedy.

"These proceedings have destroyed his career entirely and ruined any further prospect of earning an income."

Becker will serve half his sentence on licence.

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