The legendary German former tennis player Boris Becker, winner of six Grand Slam tournaments, was sentenced this Friday by a British court to two years and six months in prison for four financial crimes related to his bankruptcy in 2017.
The sentence is known after the jury of the Southwark court in London on April 8 found him guilty of these crimes, committed between June 21 and October 3, 2017.
The jury considered it proven that the former number one in the world hid assets and loans worth about 2.5 million pounds (about 3 million euros) in order to avoid paying his debts, which amount to about 50 million pounds (60 million euros). of euros).