Chapter 162

The prosecutor asked with furrowed brows, “Mr Dupont, didn’t you say that you knew about the fund transactions but that you were coerced to perform those illegal transactions?”

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Dupont faked a smile and answered, “I said that I was coerced, yes. But I didn’t say I had been aware of the transactions.”

“So, what did you think you were coerced to do?”

“I was told to keep quiet about whatever the Duke was thinking of doing. But I didn’t know I’d be paid to be silent.”

“The document I’ve just placed before you shows the list of properties you acquired in the past eighteen years. Tell me, Mr Dupont, do you own them?”

“Yes.”

“How did you purchase them?”

“With money.”

“Money from your salary?”

“Well, that’s what I thought. It wasn’t until you sent the audits to my lawyers did I realize that part of what I spent may well be from the government.”

“And a percentage was transferred to a company, Wu Bi Corporation, why?”

“I don’t know. I’ve never heard of the company. Perhaps it’s the missing Duke’s?”

“Do you have evidence that Greg Claw is the owner?”

“Well, no. It was simply a guess.”

“So, you’re saying that you never knew that you’ve been transferring funds to Wu Bi Corporation, and that you had been spending the government’s money?”

“Yes, I didn’t have a clue.” Dupont acted so well that Lucianne was even thinking of nominating him for an Oscar award. Xandar, on the other hand, wondered how many hours Dupont practised his act in front of the mirror before taking the stand.

The prosecutor’s eyebrows raised in disbelief as she questioned, “You truly believed that your salary was enough to acquire a stamp collection in the millions, and palatial mansions in the billions?”

bank account, so when I purchase a

the witness. She composed herself, and asked, “Mr Dupont, how did you come about being

the best of the best, la crème de la

one become the best of

requirements. Good education

your ‘good education’

to brag, and brag he did. “Well, I was educated in Helm University, and I was the top three students in my

degree is in Finance,

added with a

a top student in Finance, graduated from the top

find my habits to be most appropriate. With experience

in a music school, is

one in the Kingdom.” He glowed

Her tuition itself costs five hundred thousand dollars

“Savings.”

“What savings?”

started saving since I was a boy. It’s a habit that

are you,

hundred and two

even if you didn’t spend a single cent on living expenses, it still would have been impossible for you to own all the assets that

not realize

for these telephone records and transcripts between you and Helena Tanner regarding the transfer of government funds,

must have been hiding behind

traced the call to your

stolen my phone to make

experts confirmed that it was your voice at

device,

moment before she continued, “Alright. Then, answer me this, Mr

I’m not familiar with the latest

account; you didn’t know you couldn’t afford the stamp collections and mansions; you didn’t know your daughter’s music school would’ve forced you into bankruptcy; you didn’t know about the calls made

that I was coerced to keep quiet about the

given anything in

compensation. And if we were to look at the audits you presented,

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