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?”

account, so when I purchase a property and my card isn’t rejected, I assume that I have the necessary funds

hide her disgust for the witness. She composed herself, and asked, “Mr Dupont, how did

best of the best, la crème de la crème, you

one become the best of

requirements. Good education

‘good education’ that got you

he did. “Well, I was educated

is in Finance,

Dupont added

student in Finance, graduated from the top university of the

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

in a music school, is that

one in the Kingdom.” He glowed even

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

“Savings.”

“What savings?”

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

old are

and two

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

did not realize that,

telephone records and transcripts between you and Helena Tanner regarding the transfer of government funds, what do you have to say

me. Whoever it was must have been hiding behind

traced the call

my phone to

it was your voice at the end of the call

voice-alteration device, I

answer me this, Mr Dupont. Why were these calls

don’t know. I’m not familiar with the latest

were channeled into your 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 didn’t know about the calls made between Helena Tanner and someone who sounded

coerced to

being given

offering any sort of compensation. And if

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