On charges of tax evasion and bankruptcy fraud, Boris Becker, the legendary Wimbledon champion, has been jailed for more than 2 years.
Boris Becker, the former world number one tennis player, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison by a London court for trying to conceal millions of dollars in assets in a bankruptcy fraud case.
Despite his claimed $50 million in total career earnings, the three-time Wimbledon champion has fought with the law on many times in post-retirement over tax evasion, having been sentenced to a (suspended) 2-year prison sentence in his native Germany in 2002.
Former Wimbledon champ Boris Becker
After being found guilty on April 8 of "transferring hundreds of thousands of pounds from his business account and failing to declare a property in his hometown of Leimen, Germany," he arrived to his Friday sentencing in central London wearing a Wimbledon tie, according to The Daily Mail.
He faced a maximum sentence of seven years in prison, bu...
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