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

for the witness. She composed herself, and asked, “Mr Dupont, how did you come about

was the best of the best, la crème de la crème,

become the best of the best, Mr

very stringent requirements. Good education was the primary consideration, of

your ‘good education’ that got

“Well, I was educated

is in

added with a monkey

graduated from the

my habits to be most appropriate. With experience comes less

in a music school,

one in the Kingdom.” He glowed even

“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

“Savings.”

“What savings?”

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

old are you, Mr

two as

that even if you didn’t spend a single cent on living expenses, it still would have been

did not realize that,

Helena Tanner regarding the transfer of government funds,

must have been hiding behind

the call to

must have stolen my phone to

confirmed that it was your voice at the end of

voice-alteration device, I

she continued, “Alright. Then, answer me this, Mr Dupont. Why were these

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

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

knew that I was coerced to keep quiet about the Duke’s

given anything

can make one do anything without offering any sort of compensation. And if we

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