One of the illegal businesses and the one that generated a great sum of money to fund Joaquin's campaign was the gambling house, located right in the eighth district. Although gambling was a good business to drain people's wealth, there were more disturbing things that were happening inside that not everyone was aware of.
This particular establishment had also become the center of the drug trade. And the man who was the biggest distributor of this was none other than the crown prince. Yes. The reason the opposing parties who were aware of this would never side with someone who could potentially ruin the empire was because of this matter alone.