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Former Wimbledon champion Boris Becker has been released from prison today and will be deported from the United Kingdom, according to the Palestinian News Agency.
He had served just eight months of a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for concealing £2.5m of assets and loans to avoid paying his debts when he went bankrupt.
The German has lived in the UK since 2012 but now faces expulsion from the country.
Baker is believed to be eligible for automatic deportation as he has been sentenced to 12 months or more in prison and is not believed to hold British citizenship.
His release was earlier than expected – it was originally thought he would serve half his term.
The 55-year-old was reportedly being held at the low-security Hintercombe Prison near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, having previously been imprisoned at Wandsworth Prison in London.
Becker was declared bankrupt in 2017 and owed around £50m on an unpaid loan of over £3m on his Mallorca property.
He was found guilty of transferring hundreds of thousands of his business account to others and failing to declare property in his hometown in Germany.
He was also found guilty of concealing a bank loan of €825,000 (nearly £700,000) and 75,000 shares in a technology company.
The judge who sentenced him said he showed no remorse or acceptance of his guilt.
Baker told the jury his $50m (£40m) career earnings had been swallowed up by an expensive divorce from his first wife, child support payments and “costly lifestyle commitments”.
In 2002, the world number one was also convicted of tax evasion and attempted tax evasion in Germany.
0:21 Boris Becker crying in “Hit Rock Bottom”
Baker talks about the latest condition disorder in a clip released this week for an Apple TV+ documentary.
Presenting him before his sentencing in April, he said: “I’ve hit rock bottom, I don’t know what to do.
“(I will) face (my punishment), I will not hide or run away. (I will accept) whatever sentence I will get.
“It’s Wednesday afternoon and (on) Friday I know the rest of my life.”
His fall from grace was documented in a two-part programme, which also looks at Baker’s turbulent personal life and tennis career, which included three Wimbledon titles.
Also featured are the Becker family as well as players past and present, such as Novak Djokovic and John McEnroe.
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