“Are you Hugh Lewis?”
The leader of the team asked Hugh sternly.
Hugh looked at him in panic and looked at the corridor. He realized that the men he brought with him were nowhere to be seen.
Ineffably, Hugh’s expression turned horrible as if a crisis was going to fall on him anytime.
“I’m asking you if you’re Hugh Lewis!” the officer yelled.
“Y-Yes,” Hugh answered with difficulty.
He knew if these people were able to show up in front of him, then they must already have concrete proof of his crimes.
“Hugh Lewis, we have sufficient proof to suspect that you’re involved in illegal fundraising and manipulating the stock prices in the dark. This is your summon. Please come with me,” the officer said in a deep voice.
Hugh gritted his teeth tightly and looked at Jasper with rancor. He growled, saying, “Did you arrange all these?”
Jasper said indifferently, “You’ve broken the law, so you were simply asking for this.”
Hugh roared, “If it wasn’t for you, how would it be possible for them to show up just in time? Stop quibbling, you’re the one who did this!”
“Hugh, you still aren’t remorseful even when death is near. We’re not working under someone, so nobody can tell us what to do. Actually, we’ve been watching you for a very long time. You’re just too egotistical and didn’t notice,” the officer said coldly.
Hugh laughed maniacally and said, “Bullsh*t! Those people’s money is for me to invest!
“You’re saying that I’m manipulating the stock prices? Jasper is the real manipulator! If not, how could Zoni have plummeted all of a sudden?”
“The investment agreement of Lantern Capital clearly states that all of the investment funds will not be used for stock speculation, so it means you’ve made a promise to your investors. Hence, this is illegal. A lot of people have reported you, you just had no idea.
“As for you saying that Jasper is also manipulating the stock price, if you have the evidence, you can report him to us too. We’ll definitely enforce the law impartially,” the officer said sternly.
“Ask them if you don’t believe me! Everyone here heard Jasper saying that… That…”
After Hugh said that, he suddenly could not continue anymore because he remembered that Jasper had never admitted to manipulating the stock price before.
Jasper looked at Hugh indifferently as if he was watching the final outburst of a hysterical lunatic.
“I think everyone here can be my witness. Just now, I said I thought Zoni has a pretty high price and it’s scamming the stock investors of their money, so that’s why I’m not happy with it. The only thing I did was sell its stocks.”
Jasper chuckled and turned his head to the officer to ask, “Is this manipulating the stock price?”
The officer shook his head and said, “This is a normal investment in the market, so it’s not.”
Hugh staggered backward and glared at Jasper with extreme rancor in his eyes. Suddenly, he laughed furiously. “Alright. Well done! What a nice trick! You’ve planned this from the start so that I’ll go behind bars!”
Now, everyone in the room understood.
This was indeed a trap.
However, could one say that Jasper was the one who set this trap?
At the end of the day, the problem was with Hugh because he was the one breaking the law. If not, Jasper would not have been able to make those officers do this even if he wanted.
As such, Hugh’s arrogance and Jasper’s impression as a scatter-brained youth back then were all fake.
This entire development had already been in the palm of Jasper’s hand.
“How horrifying!”
The person next to John who had just teased Jasper for being inexperienced sighed in regret with a horrible expression on his face.
“I’ve been living on this earth for 40 plus years but I didn’t expect to gain knowledge and experience today,” another man looked at Jasper and muttered with a complicated look in his eyes.
John snorted and said, “That’s why you can’t just look at one side when you’re looking at things. Who knows what will happen in the future? All of you are not young anymore and you still don’t know this?”
