Grand Slam champion
Boris Becker
has been jailed for two and a half years after hiding assets and debts
worth more than £2.5 million after being declared bankrupt.
The three-time Wimbledon
winner, 54, deliberately transferred money to family and associates
when he ran aground financially in June 2017, successfully keeping
£390,000 (€426,930) and the proceeds of a bank loan worth £1.1 million
from his creditors.
He was convicted by a jury of four charges under the Insolvency Act, and was jailed on Friday by the Recorder of Westminster, Judge Deborah Taylor. Prosecutor Rebecca Chalkley said Becker deliberately concealed his
assets and debts when he knew they should have been offered up to the
bankruptcy proceedings:
“He deliberately and dishonestly removed
money and transferred it to various third parties, with the intention of
removing money from the estate and as a consequence away from recovery
and their creditors”,
Becker is expected to serve at least half of the sentence in a prison setting.