Boris Becker is a free man: Now his lawyer speaks up
Created: 12/16/2022 5:38 am
By: Patrick Mayer, Alexander Kaindl
Boris Becker has been released from custody in England.
The tennis legend is free again after seven months in prison.
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Update from December 15, 3:15 p.m .:
Boris Becker is a free man.
This was confirmed by the lawyers of the 55-year-old.
“Our client Boris Becker was released from custody in England and left for Germany today.
He has thus served his sentence and is not subject to any criminal law restrictions in Germany," said his lawyer Christian-Oliver Moser in a statement.
Becker is benefiting from a procedure designed to ease the pressure on overcrowded British prisons.
Nothing is known about Becker's plans after his release.
"For reasons of protecting the privacy of our client, we ask you to refrain from further inquiries.
Questions about his current whereabouts and any interview requests will not be answered either," Moser said.
Boris Becker: New details on release from prison
Update from December 15, 1:56 p.m .:
So Boris Becker returns to Germany.
His 87-year-old mother Elvira, who will be able to hug her son again for Christmas, should be particularly pleased.
As time goes on, more and more details about Becker's departure from the UK come to light.
According to
picture
information, his things are still in Huntercombe prison near London, he couldn't even say goodbye to the other prisoners because everything happened so quickly.
Boris is free: Becker's release from prison and deportation confirmed
Update from December 15, 12:19 p.m .:
After more than seven months in British custody, former tennis star Boris Becker is free again.
The German has been released from prison and will be deported from Britain, the British news agency PA reported on Thursday.
It was expected that Becker would be flown to Germany immediately after his release.
The rest of his prison sentence of two and a half years expires, as reported by tz.de.
The 55-year-old may not return to his adopted country Great Britain until his actual sentence has expired.
Becker, who comes from Leimen in Baden-Württemberg, has lived in London for years, but does not have British citizenship.
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Boris Becker benefits from a special dismissal and deportation program
Under British law, prisoners cannot actually be paroled until they have served at least half of their sentence.
For Becker, that would be 15 months, i.e. the deadline is July 29, 2023. However, the former exceptional athlete benefited from a special dismissal and deportation program.
Any foreign prisoner “who can be released from prison and deported up to twelve months before the earliest release date” is eligible for this.
The three-time Wimbledon winner was convicted in London on April 29 for concealing assets worth millions from his insolvency administrators.
Becker was declared bankrupt in 2017.
He then had to disclose his assets to the insolvency administrators - but in the opinion of the court he left out important parts.
He was most recently in Huntercombe Prison west of the British capital.
Boris Becker: What's next?
Update from December 15, 11:16 a.m .:
He is back in Germany.
But what's next?
Here we have put together questions and answers about Boris Becker.
Update from December 15, 9:43 a.m .:
Boris Becker is obviously back in Germany.
After the private jet landed near Munich on Wednesday, another piece of news made headlines in the evening: There is said to be a documentary about the tennis legend's recent past.
The first scenes from it show a crying Becker before the sentencing.
Boris Becker flies to Munich and lands despite the chaos of the weather – private jet diverted
December 14 update, 4:23 p.m .:
About ten days before Christmas, Boris Becker was reportedly released from prison in Great Britain.
Actually, due to his deportation to Germany, the 55-year-old should have landed at Munich Airport on Wednesday, where many press representatives and photographers were already waiting for him.
However, freezing rain and black ice caused restrictions at the airport in the north of the state capital and even paralyzed it.
Due to the winter weather, Becker's flight from London was also diverted.
As the
focus
reports, the plane landed in the west of Munich instead, more precisely at the Oberpfaffenhofen special airport.
The news magazine writes that a private jet from London landed at 3:23 p.m.
In prison in England: Boris Becker, here with his partner Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro, before the decisive court date at the end of April.
© IMAGO / Parsons Media
Boris Becker: The release of tennis legend is apparently imminent
First report from December 7th:
Munich/London – The Huntercombe prison in Oxfordshire is considered an English tough prison.
Here, about 60 kilometers west of the city limits of London, the German tennis legend Boris Becker has been imprisoned since the end of April.
So for about half a year.
But: Becker should soon be free again.
At least that's what the British
Mirror
reports .
As early as mid-November, the British media reported on an impending release from prison.
Originally, the man from Baden had been sentenced to two years and six months in prison in Great Britain for delaying bankruptcy.
The court judgment of April 29, 2022 stated that Becker had not fully complied with the disclosure requirements in his insolvency proceedings.
At the time, it was about owning real estate in Germany, voting shares in a technology company and a bank loan of 825,000 euros.
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The jury found the 55-year-old guilty of four out of 24 charges at Southwark Crown Court in London.
Becker is also said to have transferred large sums to the accounts of his ex-wives Barbara and Lilly Becker, although bankruptcy proceedings have been pending against him since June 2017.
At the time, his outstanding debts were estimated at £50m (€59m).
Boris Becker: Born in Leimen in Baden, lived in Munich
In the past, the German sports star has repeatedly made headlines because of his allegedly extravagant lifestyle.
But: Will he be returning to Germany soon?
As the
Mirror
further reports, Becker is said to be deported next week from Great Britain - where he lived - to the Federal Republic (of which he is a citizen).
Becker was born on November 22, 1967 in Leimen near Heidelberg.
According to his own statements, he lived in Munich between 1991 and 1993, although he was officially registered in Monaco.
Just 17 years young: Boris Becker at his first Wimbledon victory in 1985. © IMAGO / Sven Simon
Therefore, on October 24, 2002, the District Court of Munich I sentenced him to two years' imprisonment on probation for tax evasion, because he is said to have evaded taxes amounting to 3.3 million marks.
At the time, before the trial began, Becker transferred around 3.1 million euros in back taxes for the years 1991 to 1995 to the tax authorities, which the
German Press Agency (dpa)
said was considered a mitigating sentence.
Boris Becker: German tennis star won Wimbledon three times in London
And now?
If the reports from England are correct, it is still unclear where Becker is moving to Germany this time.
During his career, the tennis star had won the Australian Open twice (1991, 1996), Wimbledon three times (1985, 1986, 1989) and the US Open once (1989).
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