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

to say, “I don’t recall how I

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

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 it was

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 was clear that those words

need me to repeat the question?” The prosecutor

“No.”

question; or ‘No’, my understanding of

Cummings spat

prosecutor matched his hard stare when she asked, “And how

can’t present evidence, it doesn’t mean there wasn’t any. They’re

at his baseless argument as she

that nothing the defense lawyer did could mask

such 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

And what did the minister have to say about this

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

faith prematurely by being the first minister among

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

there would have been something wrong with her. As the Finance Minister, as someone

For some reason, the prosecution decided to exercise some ‘due diligence’

government six million dollars, of

than it did 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

brother, Herbert, had been charged and arrested together with

a little joke

And then there was that wolf, who had been speaking to Lycans like she owned all of

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useless. This never

rogue attacks’ or ‘include them in government decisions !. It is disgraceful to see how low King

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