The verdict was announced after, on the eighth, the Southwark Court in London was found guilty of the crimes, which were committed between June 21 and October 3, 2017.
The jury found that it proved that the world’s number one hid assets and loans worth about 2.5 million pounds (15.57 million Brazilian reals) to avoid repayment of debts, which amount to 50 million pounds .311.6 million).
After hearing Judge Deborah Taylor’s verdict, Baker was taken to court cells to begin serving his sentence.
The judge confirmed that the former tennis player “did not learn the lesson”, after he was sentenced to prison with the obligation to implement it, with a suspended sentence, which was issued in 2002.
“(Baker) did not repent, did not accept guilt and sought to distance himself from the allegations of crime and bankruptcy,” the judge said.
“He showed no humility,” Taylor added in his letter.
Among the accusations against the German is the transfer of 427,000 euros (2.24 million Brazilian riyals) from the accounts of the companies he owned, to others, such as his ex-wife Barbara Becker, for example.
In addition to hiding an interest in a property located in the city of Lemen, Germany, a loan in the amount of 825,000 euros (4.34 million Brazilian reais), as well as shares in a technology company.
The jury, in turn, acquitted Baker in 20 other cases, in which he was accused of failing to deliver the awards and medals that the bidder would put up in the auction after his bankruptcy.
The former tennis player was declared bankrupt on June 21, 2017, after paying a bank loan of approximately 3.8 million euros (20 million Brazilian reals) to re-mortgage a property in Mallorca, Spain.
In 2002 Becker, who has lived in the United Kingdom since 2012, was sentenced in Germany to two years of probation, in addition to paying €500,000 (2.63 million Brazilian reals) for tax evasion between 1991 and 1993.
In recent years, the former number one in the world has worked as a coach for players, including Serbian Novak Djokovic, and as a commentator for the British “BBC” station. EFE
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