When you have something to loose then it works as punishment. For those who start with little to nothing, it's no loss. Feels like a pity party for Becker who married an educated professional woman 20 years his junior after serving his sentence and is now living in Milan. I have a hard time giving a damn what this guy experienced in the can.

Am I reading the article wrong or his crime is using his assets to fund his children and healthcare and then failed to pay his debts?

Transparent attempt at whitewashing Boris's image to sell some books. When he got caught hiding millions in assets to avoid paying his creditors, first he tried to bamboozle the judge. Then, he bought a worthless diplomatic passport for the Central African Republic from some guy around the Shepherd's Bush market to claim diplomatic immunity. Then, he strutted haughtily into the courtroom and declined to make any expression of contrition even after having been found guilty.

Judge sentenced him to 3 yr and change in prison; then, just 10 mo later, some tennis-loving Crown servant decided that the way to solve overcrowding in British prisons begun with freeing Boris Becker. A policy for people who'd been in jail for a minimum of 12 mo was inexplicably applied to Boris. He flew to Germany on a private plane, landed and walked, no longer subject to any legal confinement or release conditions.

One can't make this stuff up. Life imitates, and surpasses, art.