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.”

line of properties for

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

your son bought the properties which are in your name; and no proof that you didn’t tell your son to present a false oral testimony in court. Is

to say that Sebastian himself had purchased the properties since he eamed well as a CEO. Although they argued about it for a good twenty-five minutes, Alfred made sure

which normally made the son give in without question. But it was clear that those words had lost their magic

do you need me to repeat the question?” The

“No.”

you don’t need me to repeat the question; or ‘No’, my understanding

spat

she asked,

mean there wasn’t any.

smirked at his baseless argument as

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 evidentiary support to

was no way he could cast reasonable doubt in the prosecution’s case against him. Without reasonable doubt, Alfred Cummings would be found guilty and sentenced in accordance

lighter sentence. And what did the minister have to say about this

then warned Cummings that the later he pleaded guilty, the less likely the court would grant him a

for that illusionary light at the 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

Marie Martin to the stand. As soon as she sat, her fingers ran nervously through her light brown pixie hair, which she had already checked three

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

who were charged. For some reason, the prosecution decided to exercise some ‘due diligence’ and dug deeper into her affairs and… business

to the construction of low-cost apartments for the middle class Lycan community. This project cost the government six

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

brother, Herbert,

a little joke on the Duke and Sir

harmless pranks when they were younger’, she thought to herself. And then there was that wolf, who had been speaking to Lycans like she owned

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at the King with those fake innocent eyes, and even the King is rendered blind and useless. This never happened with the late King Lucas. He never allowed Queen Vera to speak as she pleased, and look how wonderful and

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

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