German tennis star Boris Becker has returned to Germany after serving eight months in prison in Britain, his lawyer said on Thursday.
The 55-year-old German, who has lived in Britain since 2012, was released on Thursday morning and travelled back to Germany shortly thereafter.
Becker “has thus served his sentence and is not subject to any penal restrictions in Germany,” his lawyer, Christian-Oliver Moser, said in a statement. He did not give additional details about Becker’s location in Germany.
“Any foreign national who is convicted of a crime and given a prison sentence is considered for deportation at the earliest opportunity,” the Home Office said in a statement earlier on Thursday, while declining to comment directly on Becker’s case.
The six-time Grand Slam champion champion had been sentenced to 30 months in prison in April for illicitly transferring large amounts of money and hiding assets after he was declared bankrupt in June 2017.
He had been convicted by London’s Southwark Crown Court on four charges under the Insolvency Act, including removal of property, concealing debt and two counts of failing to disclose estate.
Becker rose to stardom in 1985 at the age of 17 when he became the first unseeded player to win the Wimbledon singles title and went on to win it twice more during a glittering career before retiring from tennis in 1999.
The former world No. 1 was declared bankrupt in June 2017.
Information from Reuters contributed to this report.