Chapter 159

The prosecutor got to the point with Alfred Cummings. “Mr Cummings, did your son visit you yesterday?”

“Yes.”

“Did you ask him to testify against the law?”

Alfred glanced briefly at Mr Clark before he uttered, “No.”

“Did you ask him to testify for your case?”

“Yes, but I didn’t tell my son to lie. I’m a father. Every father’s pride is to raise his children with the highest honor and integrity.”

“You insisted that your properties were acquired by your son as gifts. Do you have proof of these transactions?”

“I’m afraid that is something I do not have. I was decluttering my home a few years back, and I must have

cleaned out the documents recording the transactions.”

“And do you have evidence transferring government funds to Helena Tanner?”

“I’m afraid not. The transfer was done discreetly so there aren’t any documents to prove it.”

“Did you hand Helena Tanner the funds through bags of cash, Mr Cummings?”

“I—” he was about to answer when Mr Clark’s look seemed to be advising him to do otherwise, so he choset o say, “I don’t recall.”

“You don’t recall?” She took one step closer and asked again, “You don’t recall how you transferred money i n the billions to Helena Tanner?”

“Yes.”

you recalled that your son acquired the line of properties for you when your son

don’t recall how I transferred the funds to Tanner,

“So, you have no proof of the transfer you purportedly made to Helena Tanner; no proof that your son bought the properties which are in your name; and no

as a CEO.

was: do me proud, my boy, which normally made the son give in without question. But it was clear that those words

me to repeat the question?” The prosecutor

“No.”

or ‘No’, my understanding of your

spat in

she asked, “And how

evidence, it doesn’t mean there wasn’t any. They’re just no

argument as she said, “I

Judge Cook invited Mr Clark to re-examine Alfred, it was clear that nothing the defense lawyer did could mask the glaring fact that the minister had no

the prosecution’s case against him. Without reasonable doubt, Alfred Cummings would be found

And what did the minister

guilty, the less likely the court would

end of the long, dark tunnel than to seal his own faith prematurely by being the first minister among the four, and the first minister in the Kingdom’s history, to

hair, which she had

dark circles underneath her eyes. If she wasn’t horrified right now, there would have been something wrong with her. As the Finance Minister, as

to exercise some ‘due diligence’ and dug deeper into her affairs and… business

cost the government six million dollars, of which twenty

for the other three ministers. The only comfort she got before taking the stand was the fact that one of her two sons, Henry Martin, now seated at the front row on the other side of the aisle from the royals, told her that she looked ‘presentable and responsible’ in the pastel pink

brother, Herbert, had been charged and arrested together

they played a little joke on the Duke and Sir Weaver, Marie

thought to herself. And then there was that wolf,

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innocent eyes, and even the King is rendered blind and useless. This never happened with the late King Lucas.

to provide aid for rogue attacks’ or ‘include them in government decisions !. It is disgraceful to see how low King Alexandar had chosen to stoop for a creature of the inferior

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