greenone
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Becker that is. 2.5 years, looks a bit on the lightside if you ask me.
Boris in the Clink
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Bunkermagnet
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After going bankrupt owing 50 mill........I think he should too, and serve longer.
It certainly sends out a message.
How the heck has he blown the money he has?
How the heck has he blown the money he has?
rudebhoy
Q-School Graduate
He's in the grand slammer.
srixon 1
Journeyman Pro
Women, booze and having a good time. The rest he just frittered away.
Pathetic Shark
Tour Rookie
He should be used to serving.
larmen
Head Pro
And probably wrong/no advisors?
If you think about it, he and Steffi Graf came up together. And she is doing well. It was her dad that went to prison for tax evasion (or avoidance?). She is settled as an ordinary rich person in Las Vegas these days.
Boris is a. It like a young football professional these days. Too much money too early with no guidance.
arnieboy
Challenge Tour Pro
Who will replace him in the commentary box at Wimbledon or are they installing a live feed in his cell?
Slime
Tour Winner
I don't think he should have gone to prison at all.
Prisons are over crowded and he is not a danger to the public.
He has to be punished, no doubt, but I think it would have been better if he'd been forced to do, say, 2½ years of community service instead.
He could be helping teach under privileged kids to play tennis, as an example.
Just a thought.
Prisons are over crowded and he is not a danger to the public.
He has to be punished, no doubt, but I think it would have been better if he'd been forced to do, say, 2½ years of community service instead.
He could be helping teach under privileged kids to play tennis, as an example.
Just a thought.
Part of the point of sentencing is not only to punish but to deter others. What Becker did was effectively theft. He hid millions to avoid that money going to people he owed to. It's wrong on so many levels, classic white collar crime. Jail is exactly the place for him, it might make others think differently when in the same situation.
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Apparently he’d done it before in Germany. So perhaps that’s why he’s got a proper sentence now.
Blue in Munich
Crocked Professional Yeti Impersonator
The issue as I understand it was hiding the assets he had to avoid paying his debts. Let's say he owes that money to your business, still happy that he walks free?
Over the 20 years running a small business I've had 3 companies go bust on us owing us money. I'm annoyed about all 3 still but none did anything illegal, according to the administrator so that's the end of it.
In Becker's case, as you say, it is his attempted deception that's done for him. If he had not done that then the system protects him. This is a long winded way of saying that I wouldn't be happy in your scenario but I'd accept the fact that what was done was not illegal. Morally questionable but not illegal.
Blue in Munich
Crocked Professional Yeti Impersonator
So if what he has done is not illegal, why is he banged up?
Going bankrupt, owing money as he did, is not an offence. (It can be in certain circumstances but not this situation). He is banged up as he tried to hide his assets from the administrator who was called in to recover money for his creditors. He was supposed to declare all of his assets, he deliberately did not in order to try to maintain his extravagant lifestyle.
That is an offence, a serious one. It is effectively theft. Stealing £2.5m would get you locked up, you would expect that wouldn't you? That is why he is inside, it's not for his bankruptcy.
SocketRocket
Ryder Cup Winner
Thinking on this I'm not convinced a jail sentence is right. To me incarceration is best used with criminals who are a real physical danger to the public, prisons can be violent corrupting places that either make people worse or allow the hardest to manipulate the weakest. Someone like Boris should be either in an open type prison or outside and as someone said coaching young tennis players or the like.
I go back to an earlier post I made, part of the reason for punishment is deterrent. This sentence is partly to deter other people who might think of doing the same crime. A slap on the wrist and bit of community service is a risk worth taking if you want to hide your wealth from an administrator. A jail term of 2 1/2 years, less so.
I suspect, don't know, that he is unlikely to be kept in a rough and tough prison. It's like to be relatively gentle as he is not a risk to others. He will lose his liberty but he is not a threat to others and will be dealt with accordingly. Assuming he behaves, no reason why not, he will be out after a year and a half, approx. Maybe even earlier if prisons remain overcrowded and early release schemes continue.
larmen
Head Pro
He is in Wandsworth and German paper BILD runs a series with ex convicts how rough and tough it is. But as others said, as a celebrity he might not be sitting in those rough parts of that prison.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
As I understand it only very temporarily as it is where all convicted by the court he was tried in and by go. He will fairly quickly be moved to somewhere akin to an open prison, if not actually an open one.
