During the bankruptcy trial, the court also heard he owed Swiss authorities five million francs (£4m) and separately just under €1m in liabilities over a 2002 conviction for tax evasion and attempted tax evasion in Germany. Becker was accused of hiding assets and transactions worth more than £4.5m – including a number of trophies, such as the one he won during the 1985 match that had catapulted him to stardom.
