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 doesn’t recall

to say, “I don’t recall how I transferred the funds to Tanner, that’s all I’ll say

which are in your name;

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 time to

to 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

Cummings, do you need me to repeat the

“No.”

repeat the question; or ‘No’,

Cummings spat in

his hard stare when she asked, “And how is my

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

baseless argument as she said, “I see. Thank you,

clear that nothing the defense lawyer did could mask the glaring fact that the minister had no evidentiary support to prove

Alfred Cummings would be found guilty and sentenced in

minister have to say about this advice? “Let’s wait and see what the others

that the later he pleaded guilty, the

to seal his own faith prematurely by being

stand. As soon as she sat, her fingers ran nervously through her light brown pixie hair, which she

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

For some reason, the prosecution decided to exercise some ‘due diligence’ and dug deeper into her

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 percent went into her own pockets. The prosecution, with the court’s permission,

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

Herbert, had

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

younger’, she thought to herself. And then there was that wolf, who had been speaking to Lycans like she owned all

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and useless. This never happened with the late King Lucas. He never allowed Queen Vera to speak as

government decisions !. It is disgraceful to see

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