After serving an eight-month prison term, Boris Becker freed

• Tennis legend Boris Becker was released from prison on Thursday.
• 55-year-old served eight months of two-and-a-half year sentence.
• Becker was convicted concealing assets and loans totaling 2.5 million pounds.

Tennis legend Boris Becker was released from prison on Thursday after serving eight months of his sentence for concealing assets and loans totaling 2.5 million pounds in order to avoid paying obligations.

After being convicted guilty of four offences under the Insolvency Act in April, the 55-year-old German was sentenced to two and a half years in prison. He was let out of jail on Thursday morning and has since taken a flight to Germany.

The former Wimbledon champion has reportedly been expelled from the United Kingdom, according to  report. Becker “was released from detention in England and has left for Germany today,” according to a statement from his Berlin-based attorney Christian-Oliver Moser.

According to the article, Becker travelled from Biggin Hill to Munich on Thursday afternoon in a private aircraft that a friend had leased.

According to a Home Office official who talked “Any foreign national who is convicted of a crime and given a prison sentence is assessed for deportation at the earliest opportunity.”

As a foreigner without British citizenship who was given a sentence of more than 12 months in custody, Becker is automatically deported.

The German, who gave up playing in 1999, has been residing in the UK since 2012. Throughout his 15-year career, he captured six Grand Slam singles titles, including three at Wimbledon. Due to an outstanding loan of more than £3 million on his Mallorca villa, he was declared bankrupt in June 2017.

Becker was accused of concealing assets worth millions of pounds in order to avoid paying his debts when he went on trial earlier this year. He was ultimately declared innocent of 20 charges, but guilty of four related to his bankruptcy.

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