Six-time Grand Slam champion Boris Becker has left prison in the United Kingdom after serving eight months of his sentence for hiding \u00a32.5m ($3.09m) worth of assets and loans to avoid paying debts.<\/p>\n
Former world no. 1 was jailed for two and a half years in April after being found guilty of four charges under the Insolvency Act.<\/p>\n
However, the three-time Wimbledon champion left the prison on Thursday morning and will most likely be deported to Germany next week.<\/p>\n
Any foreign national who is convicted of a crime and given a prison sentence is considered for deportation at the earliest opportunity,” the Home Office said in a statement while declining to comment directly on Becker’s case.<\/p>\n
The German tennis star qualifies for automatic deportation as a foreign national without British citizenship and a custodial sentence of more than 12 months.<\/p>\n
The 55-year-old was initially held at Wandsworth Prison in south-west London before moving to Huntercombe Prison in May, where he stayed until today.<\/p>\n
Becker was cleared of 20 other charges, including nine counts of hiding trophies and medals, including his first Wimbledon trophy from 1985.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, Becker appeared at London’s Southwark Crown Court wearing a striped Wimbledon-colored purple and green tie.<\/p>\n
Becker took a \u00a33.85m loan from private bank Arbuthnot Latham in 2013 and borrowed \u00a31.2m with a 25% interest rate from the billionaire businessman John Caudwell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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