A London-based mother of three children received the right to a larger divorce payment when she discovered that her husband had an extra income from underworld launderings. In 2010 Bhadresh Gohil was jailed for ten years when he assisted a Nigerian politican, James Ibori, in stealing £50 million from the oil rich state that he governed. Having already received £270,000 from her former solicitor husband from their divorce in 2004, in which she accused him of cheating and unreasonable behaviour, Varsha Gohil has now been granted the permission to seek out a bigger sum, after claiming that she could not tell of her spouse's illegal earnings before.
Ros Bever, a lawyer with Mrs Gohil's solicitors Irwin Mitchell stated: “Dishonesty in any legal proceedings should not be tolerated; the family court should not be an exception (…) this is yet another case in which an unfair settlement has been agreed because of one party being dishonest and not sharing all the details.”
Mrs Gohill will appear in the Supreme Court next June 2015 to fight the controversial case.
