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.”

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

but he managed to say, “I don’t recall how I transferred the funds

to Helena Tanner; no proof that 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 my understanding

visited him the previous day, he gave that son of his very clear and simple instructions 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,

respond before the police entered to take his father back to his cell. His parting words to Sebastian was: do me proud, my boy, which normally made the son give in without question. But it

you need me to repeat

“No.”

to repeat the question; or

Cummings spat

she asked, “And how is my

doesn’t mean there wasn’t any. They’re just

at his baseless argument as

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

prosecution’s case against him. Without reasonable doubt, Alfred Cummings would be found guilty and sentenced in accordance with the law. Mr Clark explained all of this to his client

did the minister

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

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 in the Kingdom’s history, to plead guilty to corruption

through her light brown pixie hair, which she had already checked three times in the mirror

it be overshadowed by the dark circles underneath her eyes. If she wasn’t horrified right now, there would have

the prosecution decided to exercise some ‘due diligence’ and dug deeper into her affairs and… business deals’. They

government six million dollars, of which twenty percent went

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 blouse and black coat and pants she chose to wear

mother that his brother, Herbert, had been

because they played a little joke on the

younger’, she thought to herself. And then there was that wolf, who had been speaking to Lycans like she owned all

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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 prosperous their reign

in government decisions !. It is disgraceful to see how low King Alexandar had chosen to stoop for a creature of the

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