ATP: Media: Boris Becker no longer invokes immunity

Boris Becker apparently no longer insists on diplomatic immunity in the current insolvency proceedings against him in Great Britain.

At a court hearing in London, insolvency administrator Tony Beswetherick stated that Becker had written in an e-mail that he had no choice but to waive the reference to diplomatic immunity. The three-time Wimbledon winner has added that he is financially unable to continue the case in court.

As the BBC reports, Becker’s trophies and memorabilia of his great career will be sold without diplomatic immunity. The 51-year-old had previously insisted on being entitled to political immunity as a sports attaché of the Central African Republic’s Representation to the EU in Brussels.

Later, the office manager of the foreign minister of the African country claimed that the document was a forgery. At the time, Becker had decisively rejected this.

Becker had been declared insolvent in 2017 by a bankruptcy court in London due to outstanding debts. The former tennis star recently said he had paid the court’s 3.9 million euro debt, but the insolvency administrator was still not satisfied.