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Boris Becker has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail in his bankruptcy case, according tomultipleoutlets.
Earlier this month, the tennis legend, 54, was found guilty of four Insolvency Act charges: removal of property, concealing debt, and two counts of failing to disclose estate, perABC News.The jury also determined that he was guilty of not properly reporting property in Germany and concealingclose to $1 million in debt, plus 75,000 shares in the Artificial Intelligence company Breaking Data Corp.
Taylor continued, “You have … sought to distance yourself from your offending and your bankruptcy. While I accept your humiliation as part of the proceedings, there has been no humility.”
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According toABC News, the six-time Grand Slam champion had previously denied all the charges and said he had “cooperated with trustees tasked with securing his assets — even offering up his wedding ring — and had acted on expert advice.”
Becker was found not guilty on 20 additional counts against him, including accusations that he didn’t hand over his Olympic gold medal and two Wimbledon awards to the trustees tasked with helping him to cover his debt, ABC News reported.
During the trial, Becker claimed he spent the $50 million he earned throughout his career on divorcing his first wife (Feltus), child support, and “expensive lifestyle commitments,” noting that his salary “reduced dramatically” after he retired in 1999.
According to theBBC, Becker’s attorney Jonathan Laidlaw asked for leniency on Friday and told the court the former tennis star’s “fall from grace” had left “his reputation in tatters.”
Laidlaw continued, “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.”
source: people.com
