Boris Becker has been deported after serving eight months of his imprisonment.
The three-time Wimbledon champion is now in his home country of Germany after a private jet was chartered by a friendsaid reports.
The former world number one turned BBC commentator was sentenced in April to two and a half years in prison for concealing £2.5 million in assets and loans to avoid paying debts.
Becker, 55, was declared bankrupt on 21 June 2017 – owing creditors nearly £50 million – over an unpaid loan of more than £3 million on his Mallorca estate.
The German, who has lived in the UK since 2012, was expects to serve half of his sentence in prison but was released and deported on Thursday morning.
Becker has “served his sentence and is not subject to any criminal limitation in Germany,” his lawyer, Christian Oliver Moser, said in a statement.
In May, Becker was reported to have been transferred to a lower security prison for foreign criminals awaiting deportation – Category C Huntercombe Prison near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire – after reportedly previously being held at Wandsworth Category B Prison in the south west of England. London.
The six times Grand Slam winner qualified for automatic eviction because he is a foreigner without British citizenship and has been jailed for more than 12 months.
He was found guilty of transferring hundreds of thousands of pounds from his business account to others and failing to declare property at his residence in Germany.
He was also convicted of concealing an €825,000 bank loan and 75,000 shares in a technology company.
Judge Deborah Taylor told him he had “disregarded the warning” of a 2002 suspended sentence in Germany for tax evasion and “showed no remorse”.
Deportation
A spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior said: “Any foreign national convicted of a crime and given a prison sentence is eligible for deportation at the earliest opportunity.”
Becker’s former spokesman said last month: “We are delighted for Boris that he may be eligible for parole and travel to Germany, although England has been his home for many, many years. I am sure it means a lot to him and his family will mean to be reunited at Christmas.”
Becker spoke candidly about his latest lawsuit in a recent trailer for an upcoming docuseries about his life on Apple TV+.
Speaking before the sentencing in April, he said: “I made my move [rock] bottom, I don’t know what to think.
“L [will] sight [my sentence]I’m not going to hide or run away. [I will] accept whatever punishment I’m going to get. It’s Wednesday afternoon and [on] I know Friday for the rest of my life.”