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 property and my card isn’t rejected, I assume that I have the

finding it harder to hide her disgust for the witness. She composed herself, and asked, “Mr Dupont, how did you

best, la crème de la crème,

best

very stringent requirements. Good education

what was your ‘good education’

did. “Well, I was educated in Helm

is in Finance,

added

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

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

a daughter in a music school, is that

in the Kingdom.” He glowed

expensive. Her tuition itself costs five hundred thousand dollars a year. Now, tell me, Mr Dupont, how

“Savings.”

“What savings?”

since I was a boy. It’s a habit that my parents saw fit to instill in

are you, Mr

and two as of last

single cent on living expenses, it

realize that,

Helena Tanner regarding the transfer of government

was must

traced the call to

stolen my phone

voice at the end of

voice-alteration device,

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

I’m not

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, Mr

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

being given anything in

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 the Duke took some amount as

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