Former Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness has applied for early release from prison having served 18 months of his sentence for tax fraud, his lawyer confirmed on Tuesday.
His lawyer Michael Nesselhau confirmed the move to AFP following an initial report in the Bild newspaper.
Hoeness, 63, was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison in March 2014 for cheating German tax authorities of approximately 28.5 million euros ($31.3 million) in unpaid tax.
If his application for early release is approved, Hoeness could be out of jail by the middle of March 2016.
Munich prosecutors told SID, an AFP subsidiary, that they did not want to comment when asked if they would request the full sentence be served.
But according to the German media, Hoeness’ application will be helped by the fact he has secured employment with Bayern Munich after working with one of their youth teams.
He has served his sentence in Landsberg prison, where Adolf Hitler wrote ‘Mein Kampf’, and has been on day release since the start of the year under a parole system which means he must return to jail every evening.