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?”

when I purchase a property and my card isn’t rejected, I assume that I have

hide her disgust for the witness. She composed herself,

best, la crème de la crème, you

does one become the best

stringent requirements. Good education was the

‘good education’

was just given a chance to brag, and brag he did. “Well, I was educated in Helm University, and I was the top three students

degree is in

Dupont added with

student in Finance, graduated from the top university

On the contrary, I find my habits to be most appropriate. With

have a daughter in a music

the best one in the

said, “And, unsurprisingly, the most expensive. Her tuition itself costs five hundred thousand dollars a year. Now, tell me, Mr Dupont, how did you afford it with the modest

“Savings.”

“What savings?”

was a boy. It’s a habit

are

and two as

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 that,

and transcripts between you and Helena Tanner regarding the transfer of government funds, what do you have to say about

it was must

traced the call

must have stolen my

experts confirmed that it was your voice

voice-alteration device,

Then, answer me this,

don’t know. I’m not familiar with

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 between Helena Tanner and someone who sounded exactly like you. Is there anything you did know,

that I was coerced to keep quiet about the Duke’s

given anything

darkly, “If you knew him, you’d know that he can make one do anything without offering any sort of compensation. And if we were to look at the audits you presented, prosecutor, wouldn’t you admit that

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