German tennis star Boris Becker has been freed from a British prison and will be deported from the country, PA Media reported on Thursday.
Key points:
- His release comes more thanseven months after he was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison
- He was found guilty of hiding hundreds of thousands of pounds of assets after he was declared bankrupt
- Becker had previously been convicted of tax evasion in Germany in 2002
In April, Becker, 55, was jailed for two years and six months by a London court for hiding hundreds of thousands of pounds of assets after he was declared bankrupt.
Britain’s Ministry of Justice confirmed he had been released.
“Any foreign national who is convicted of a crime and given a prison sentence is considered for deportat…
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