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?”
have a habit of constantly checking on 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
was finding it harder to hide her disgust for the witness. She composed herself, and asked, “Mr Dupont, how did you come about being
best, la crème de la crème, you know.” Dupont said
become the best
education was the primary
‘good education’
he did. “Well, I was educated in
is
First-Class Honors.” Dupont added with
in Finance, graduated from the
I find my habits to be most appropriate. With experience
a music school, is
the Kingdom.” He glowed even more
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
“Savings.”
“What savings?”
I was a boy. It’s a habit that my parents saw fit to
are
two
even if you didn’t spend a single cent on living expenses, it still would have been impossible for you to own all the assets that
not realize that,
as for these 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
the call to
must have stolen my phone to
that it was your voice at the end of the call
device, I
answer me this, Mr Dupont. Why were these
not familiar with the
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 keep quiet about the
being given anything in
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
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