The UK Court reported that Boris Becker was found guilty of crimes linked to his financial status.
Boris Becker was a ATP Wimbledon champion tennis player who knew how to amass a fortune, but is currently accused of failing to comply with his obligations to disclose information and faces 24 charges, among which he has been found guilty of four.
A jury at Southwark Crown Court in south London recently found him guilty of financial crimes linked to his bankruptcy. According to the court, he is guilty of theft of assets, non-disclosure of assets and concealment of a debt.
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Boris Becker’s bankruptcy
The former athlete declared bankruptcy in 2017, but he was accused of failing to comply with his information disclosure obligations, especially at the banking level, and he was also accused of not delivering to his creditors nine trophies and medals from his illustrious track record on the ATP circuit.
He trial against Boris Becker It began on March 21, 2022. When he had to deliver some of his ATP prizes, he reported that most of them were lost and his whereabouts were unknown, which raised doubts in justice. He is claimed to have 3 Wimbledon trophies, two from the Australian Open and the doubles Olympic gold medal he won in Barcelona in 1992.
After years, Boris Becker emerges from bankruptcy
When he had already auctioned a large part of his prizes for a value of $900,000 to pay part of his debts, justice discovered that he had undeclared properties in Germany, as well as interests in a London apartment, and a loan of $890,000 that he did not had made known.
At the time of filing for bankruptcy, his financial obligations amounted to $65 million. In 2022 he was imprisoned for failures in his bankruptcy process. In May 2024, his bankruptcy was officially ended after a British judge deemed the star had done “everything he reasonably could do” to meet his financial obligations.
