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.”

your son acquired the line of properties for

how I

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

rage. When Sebastian 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, Alfred made sure he used the final five minutes to tell Sebastian how much his son owed him as a

me proud, my boy, which normally made the son give in without question.

you need me to repeat the question?” The prosecutor

“No.”

or ‘No’, my understanding of your

spat in

prosecutor matched his hard stare when she

can’t present evidence, it doesn’t mean

his baseless argument as she said, “I see.

invited Mr Clark to re-examine Alfred, it was clear that nothing the defense lawyer did could mask the glaring fact

evidence, there 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 with the law. Mr Clark explained

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

Cummings that the later he pleaded guilty, the less likely the court would

than to seal his own faith prematurely by being the

her fingers ran nervously through her light brown pixie hair, which she had already checked three times in the mirror when she was getting ready.

by the 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 someone who has

little different from her three other colleagues who were charged. For some reason, the prosecution decided to exercise some ‘due diligence’ and dug deeper into her affairs and… business deals’. They found that she received bribes

was with regards to the construction of low-cost apartments for the middle class Lycan community. This project cost the government six million dollars, of which twenty

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

his mother that his brother, Herbert, had been charged and arrested together with

of his, all because they played a little joke on the Duke and Sir

then there was that wolf, who had been speaking to Lycans like she owned all of them, throwing insults and shaming

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was gaze 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

government decisions !. It is disgraceful

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