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?”
Se
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 have the necessary funds to purchase
her disgust for the witness. She composed herself, and
best of the best, la crème de
become the best of the best, Mr
stringent requirements. Good education was
your ‘good education’ that
brag, and brag he did. “Well, I was educated
degree is
Dupont added
odd when a top student in Finance, graduated from the top university of the Kingdom, doesn’t check his own
habits to be
have a daughter in a
one in the Kingdom.” He glowed
“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 thousand
“Savings.”
“What savings?”
started saving since I was a boy. It’s a habit that my parents saw fit to instill in
are you, Mr
and two
single cent on living expenses, it still would have been impossible for you
not realize that,
Tanner regarding the transfer of government funds, what do you have to say about
me. Whoever it was must have been hiding
call to your
my phone to make
experts confirmed that it was your voice at the end of the
voice-alteration device, I
for a moment before she continued, “Alright. Then, answer me this, Mr Dupont. Why were these calls traced to
not familiar with
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
to keep quiet about the Duke’s
being given
“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
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