Boris Becker hid his Wimbledon tennis trophies and Olympic gold medal after being declared bankrupt, a court has heard.
tennis trophies and Olympic gold medal after being declared bankrupt, a court has heard.
Becker, who commentated for the BBC at Wimbledon last year, is on trial at Southwark Crown Court charged with 24 offences under the Insolvency Act relating to his June 2017 bankruptcy over a £3.5 million loan from private bank Arbuthnot Latham for a property in Mallorca, Spain. Becker denies nine counts of failing to deliver up trophies and other awards, seven counts of concealing property, five counts of failing to disclose estate, two of removal of property and one of concealing debt.
Prosecutor Rebecca Chalkley said in the court on Tuesday: ‘It is the prosecution case that Mr Becker used the BBPOL sterling account as an extension of his own account, effectively as his own piggy bank, for everyday personal expenses such as school fees for the children and such like.’ He also transferred £249,000 to his own account, while other funds went into an account he jointly held with his son Noah, she said, claiming that the money was deliberately hidden from creditors.‘It is the concealment that the defence denies’, Ms Chalkley argued.
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