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?”

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

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

la crème de la

the best of the

education was the primary

your ‘good education’

did. “Well, I was educated in Helm University, and I was the top

degree is in Finance,

Dupont added with a

in Finance, graduated from the top university of the Kingdom, doesn’t check his

to be most

daughter in a music school, is that

best one in the Kingdom.” He glowed even

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

“Savings.”

“What savings?”

since I was a boy. It’s a habit that my parents

are you,

and two as of last

spend a single cent on living expenses, it still would

realize that,

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

wasn’t me. Whoever it was must have

traced the call

have stolen my

that it was your voice at the end of the call

device,

for a moment before she continued, “Alright. Then, answer me this, Mr Dupont. Why were

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 you into bankruptcy; you didn’t know about the

was coerced to keep quiet about the

being given anything

knew him, you’d know that he can make one do anything without offering any sort of compensation. And if

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