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.”

son acquired the line of properties for

to say, “I don’t recall how I transferred the

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

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

my boy, which normally made the son give

do you need me to repeat the

“No.”

to repeat the question; or ‘No’, my understanding of your

spat

stare when she asked,

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

prosecutor smirked at his baseless argument as she said,

nothing the defense lawyer did could mask the glaring fact that the

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

advice? Plead guilty in hopes of a lighter sentence. And what did the minister have to say about this advice? “Let’s wait

pleaded guilty, the less likely the court would grant him a

own faith prematurely by being the first minister among the four, and the first minister in the Kingdom’s history, to plead

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 she was getting

those long eyelashes, 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

a 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

community. This project cost the government six million dollars, of which twenty percent went into her own pockets. The prosecution, with the court’s permission,

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

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

little joke on the Duke and

and King themselves didn’t pull harmless pranks when they were younger’, she thought to herself. And then there was that wolf, who had been

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blind and useless. This never happened with the

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

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