Boris Becker has received “the best Christmas present I could hope for” and will be deported to his native Germany after eight months in UK prisons serving sentence for tax fraud. The tennis player, by virtue of an accelerated release regime after having served just over 25% of the thirty-month sentence imposed on him for hiding funds to avoid paying his bankruptcy debts, he is going to be released from prison and is going to settle in Frankfurt, near his mother. However, he has not yet taken the plunge and is already looking at his new plan to earn money after this difficult period.
The six-time Grand Slam champion, 55, he will participate in a television interview for a Munich channel that has paid for his private flight home, but also wants to earn money by telling his story in a book. This is how he publishes it Blickalthough Becker might not have access to that income: “The Heidelberg District Court had ordered that the insolvency proceedings apply in Germany as well,” lawyer Hans Georg Fritsche said for Bild. “This means that the income that Mr. Becker generates in Germany goes into the insolvency estate. In other words, he can’t keep most of them.”.
In addition to his memoirs, Boris Becker has opened a new professional door in the German Tennis Federation, because the vice president, Dirk Hordorff, offered him a job of his choice in such a prestigious institution: “The doors of the Deutscher Tennis Bund will always be open for Boris. If he has served his sentence, nothing prevents you from assuming his role again. I can imagine many things for Boris: head of men’s tennis, manager, president or whatever. To put it bluntly: Boris can choose the job”, he explained.
The tennis player’s mother, Elvira, is also delighted with the news, who defined her upcoming arrival as a “gift”: “Elvira is simply delighted that he is coming home. For her, Boris getting out of prison and coming home is the best thing she can imagine, and having him arrive in time for Christmas will be great for her.. He was worried about when she would see him again, so everything is a great event for her, especially considering her age, “said a friend of the 86-year-old woman for The Sun.
Why has Boris Becker been released from prison?
This same week, after serving eight months of the thirty stipulated in the sentence, Boris Becker will leave the United Kingdom to settle again in Germany. The tennis player has benefited from a scheme that allows “any foreign national serving a fixed sentence who is liable to be removed from the UK to be released from prison and deported up to 12 months before the earliest date of completion of their sentence”. This is an attempt to relieve pressure on UK prisons, which are running out of places due to the increase in prison population. There are currently almost 83,000 prisoners in the 121 prisons in England and Wales and the prisons minister, Damian Hinds, has been forced to activate Operation Safeguarding and request the temporary use of 400 police cells, a method they have not used since 2007.
