The 5-time Rejected Gamma & the Lycan King

Chapter 198 One Hundred and Ninety-Eight

Judge Cook gave a firm nod for everyone to be seated. He then cleared his throat and began, “During the recess, prior to my reaching of a verdict, the accused persons, Patrick Dupont and Pierre Whitlaw have pleaded guilty to the offenses charged. Alfred Cummings submitted the same plea after I’ve reached the verdict, hence, on legal principle, his plea will NOT be taken into account.”

“Corruption charges are criminal in nature, hence I can only sentence the accused persons according to our laws if it is beyond reasonable doubt that they committed the crimes alleged with the intention to commit it. In other words, the commission must be by their own free will.”

“All four accused persons have argued that they’d been ‘coerced’ by the Duke, Greg Claw to illegally transfer funds to their personal bank accounts, with a small percentage being sent to Wu Bi Corporation, whose owner remains unknown due to lack of evidence. Even so, there is evidence stating that the said Duke received some form of payment, though this amount is significantly less compared to the accused persons.”

“The coercion argument would have been believable if the money remained in the ministers’ respective accounts. It would also have been believable if the said Duke received an amount equal to the ministers. However, this is clearly not so.”

their argument on coercion anywhere near credible or believable. Needless to say, their assertions without evidentiary support is fatal to their case, especially

way clears their names since it is downright ridiculous to buy assets in the millions when one’s annual salary is nowhere near the amount. The prosecution has taken

all four accused persons shall be seized, thereafter transferred to the government, who may apply for an

stolen funds be traced

only a twenty-year imprisonment term along with a fine, an act of corruption in the service of The Crown is a term of eighty years, a fine double the value of what was stolen and five strokes of the whip daily in the course of imprisonment. I gather no one requires me to state the obvious fact that the fine, unfortunately, cannot be

corruption, aiding and abetting in an act of treason and fabrication of false evidence by producing audits that were inauthentic, taking into

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