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.”

recalled that your son acquired the line of properties for you when your son doesn’t recall that

how I transferred the funds

then concluded, “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 proof that you didn’t tell your son to present a

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 father, hence

made the son give in without question. But it was clear that those words

to repeat the

“No.”

the question; or ‘No’, my understanding of your lack of proof

spat

she asked, “And how is

I can’t present evidence, it doesn’t mean

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 evidentiary support to prove

Without reasonable doubt, Alfred Cummings would be found guilty and sentenced

of a lighter sentence. And what did the minister have to say about this advice? “Let’s wait and see

then warned Cummings that the later he pleaded guilty, the less likely

to seal his own faith prematurely by being the first

calling 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 times in the mirror when

nor could it be overshadowed 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 direct access to government funds, she had so many bribery offers over

different from her three other colleagues who were charged. For some reason, the prosecution decided to exercise some ‘due diligence’ and dug

This project cost the government six million dollars, of which twenty percent went

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

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

connections-dependent girlfriend of his, all because they played a little joke on the Duke and Sir Weaver,

they were younger’, she thought to herself. And then there was that wolf, who had been speaking to Lycans like she owned all of them, throwing insults and shaming anyone

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and even the King is rendered blind and useless. This never happened with the

of the nonsense of having to provide aid for rogue attacks’ or ‘include them in government decisions !. It is disgraceful to see how low King Alexandar

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