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?”

when I purchase a property and my card isn’t rejected, I assume that I have the necessary funds to purchase the property in question.”

composed herself, and asked,

I was the best of the best, la crème de

best of the best,

Good education was

was your ‘good education’ that

he did. “Well, I was

degree is

added with a

odd when a top student in Finance, graduated from the top

my habits to be

a daughter in a

in the Kingdom.” He glowed even more

glint 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 and forty thousand

“Savings.”

“What savings?”

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

old are you, Mr

two as

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

realize

And as for these telephone records and transcripts between you and Helena Tanner regarding the transfer of

must have been

traced the call to your

have stolen my phone to make the

that it was your voice at the end of

device,

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

don’t know. I’m not familiar with

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

I was coerced to keep

being given anything in

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

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