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?”

the amount I have left in my bank account, so when I purchase a property and my card isn’t rejected, I assume that I

disgust for the witness. She composed

was the best of the best, la crème de

become the best of the

stringent requirements. Good education was the primary consideration,

was your ‘good education’ that got you

just given a chance to brag, and brag he did. “Well,

degree is in Finance,

added with a monkey

in Finance, graduated from the top university of the Kingdom,

contrary, I find my habits to be most appropriate. With experience comes

daughter in a music

in the Kingdom.” He glowed even

was a glint in the prosecutor’s eye when she 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 two hundred and forty

“Savings.”

“What savings?”

boy. It’s a habit that my parents

are

and two as of

even if you didn’t spend a single cent on living expenses, it still would have been impossible for you

realize that,

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

me. Whoever it was must

the call to your

my phone to make

experts confirmed that it was your voice at the end of the call

device, I

Then, answer me this, Mr Dupont. Why were these

know. I’m not familiar with

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

that I was coerced to

being given

without offering any sort of compensation. And if we were to look at the audits you presented, prosecutor, wouldn’t you admit that the Duke took some amount

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