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 for you when your son

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

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

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

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 had lost their magic ever since Sebastian regretted letting go o f the wolf he didn’t even recall meeting before she

do you need me to

“No.”

or

Cummings spat

his hard stare when she asked,

because I can’t present evidence, it doesn’t mean there wasn’t any. They’re just no longer

baseless argument as she said, “I see. Thank

Alfred, it was clear that nothing the defense lawyer did could mask

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 all of this

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

guilty, the less likely

seal his own faith prematurely by being the first minister among the four, and the first minister in the

sat, her fingers ran nervously through her light brown pixie hair, which she had already checked three times in

covered by 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 Minister, as someone who has direct access to government funds, she had so many bribery offers over the years

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

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

sons, Henry Martin, now seated at the front row on the

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

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

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

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useless. This never

in government decisions !. It

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