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?”

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

disgust for the witness. She composed herself, and asked,

I was the best of the best, la crème de la crème, you know.” Dupont

does one become the best of the

very stringent requirements. Good education was the primary consideration,

your ‘good education’ that got

chance to brag, and brag he did. “Well, I was educated in Helm University, and

degree is in

Dupont added with a

Finance, graduated from the top university of the Kingdom,

my habits to be most appropriate. With experience comes less

in a

in the Kingdom.” He glowed

Her tuition itself costs five hundred thousand dollars a year. Now, tell me, Mr Dupont, how did you afford it with the

“Savings.”

“What savings?”

boy. It’s a habit that my parents saw fit to instill

old are you, Mr

hundred and two as of last

you didn’t spend a single cent on living expenses, it still would have been impossible for you to own all the assets

realize that,

telephone records and transcripts between you and Helena Tanner regarding the transfer of government funds,

me. Whoever it was must

traced the call to your

my

your voice at the end of

device,

answer me this, Mr Dupont. Why were these calls traced

I’m not

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

was coerced to keep quiet about the

given

offering any sort of compensation. And if we were to

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