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?”

so when I purchase a property and my card isn’t rejected, I

it harder to hide her disgust for the witness. She composed herself,

crème

best of the best,

requirements. Good education was the primary consideration,

was your ‘good education’ that got

given a chance to brag, and brag he did. “Well, I was educated in

is

added

you find it odd when a top student in Finance, graduated from the top university of the Kingdom, doesn’t check his

I find my habits to be

in a music school, is that

one in the Kingdom.” He glowed even

costs five hundred thousand dollars a year. Now, tell me, Mr Dupont, how

“Savings.”

“What savings?”

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

are

and two as of last

living expenses, it still would have been impossible for you to own all the

not realize

as for these telephone records and transcripts between you and Helena Tanner

it was must have been hiding behind my

the call

have stolen my phone to make

experts confirmed that it was your voice at the

device, I

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

know. I’m not

would’ve forced you into bankruptcy; you didn’t know about the

that I was coerced to

given anything in

of compensation. And if we were to look at the audits you presented, prosecutor, wouldn’t you admit that the Duke

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