Despite the fact that her once highly respected husband, Olasupo Shasore, SAN, has hit rock bottom with various fraud allegations hanging around him, Gbemisola seems to be taking it all in her stride. The Ebony black beauty, who is the Executive Director of Access to Knowledge, an organisation dedicated to increasing knowledge and education in Africa, took out time last weekend to let her hair down by attending a very high-profile event in Lagos, where she attempted to appear inconspicuous by blending into the background. It was an unsuccessful attempt as those who knew her very well were a bit taken aback by her presence at the event.
For Gbemisola, the former president of the International Women’s Society, life must go on, as staying holed up at home doesn’t seem like a better option. Hopefully, the storm will soon pass. Her husband, a legal luminary, public administrator and a former Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General of Lagos State, was charged to court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on a four-count charge bordering on money laundering. He was accused of inducing a certain Olufolakemi Adetore to accept cash payment without going through a financial institution.
He was however granted bail in the sum of N50 million with one surety in like sum who must be a serving director or a permanent secretary in the service of the federation or the Lagos State Government. Barely two weeks later, he was again docked on fresh money laundering charges involving the sum of N109.8M.
Olasupo Shasore was slammed with a 14-count criminal charges alongside his personal company, Middlesex Investment Limited. He was said to have failed to report in writing to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), a single lodgment of N60m into his company’s account number 0005659394 with a commercial bank. The alleged offence is said to be contrary to section 10 of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act 2011. He was also alleged to have failed to report to EFCC, a single lodgment of another N48.8m into the same account in breach of money laundering laws.
The charge sheet further indicated that Shasore in November 2017 committed the same offence by transferring $300, 000 in a single lodgment into his company account where he is a sole signatory. Besides, he was said to have failed to establish an anti-Money Laundering Desk and designate a Compliance Officer in his company as required by law. Although he pleaded not guilty to the alleged offences, his trial has been fixed to take place between March 13 and 17 2023.
Ivory Ukonu is a versatile journalist with many years of experience, with entertainment and society reporting as her area of core competence.
