Boris Becker has agreed a settlement over his debts that will result in the former Wimbledon champion being discharged from a bankruptcy order.
The German tennis star and former BBC television commentator, 56, was declared bankrupt in 2017 with debts of £50 million.
Becker, a six-time Grand Slam winner, who first triumphed at Wimbledon in 1985, aged 17, was subsequently found guilty of hiding hundreds of thousands of pounds of assets after a trial at Southwark crown court.
At his trial Becker was cleared of concealing nine trophies, including the cup he was awarded when he became Wimbledon’s youngest men’s champion aged 17 in 1985
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He was jailed for two and a half years in 2022 and deported to Germany, and is banned from returning to the UK until June 2025.
At the trial, it emerged that the day after Becker was declared bankrupt, secret payments totalling £350,000 were made, including more
