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London -— Three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker on Monday dropped his claim of diplomatic immunity from bankruptcy proceedings because of his role as a sporting ambassador for the Central African Republic.
The 51-year-old German ace had lodged the claim earlier this year, successfully blocking a sale of his sporting trophies and personal memorabilia to recover debt.
Becker’s lawyers had argued he was protected by the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
But at a court hearing in London on Monday, Tony Beswetherick, acting for the bankruptcy trustees said Becker had written in an email that he had “no alternative but to abandon the claim for diplomatic immunity”.
The sale of Becker’s belongings, worth an estimated £200 000 will now go ahead.
— AFP.
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