Because they're supposed to take the heat so the board can replace them and say the company will change course now that be bad executive is gone. It's like an unwritten rule. Though in recent times, even that hasn't happened that often.
Second part is that it's much easier to make unsavory decisions when you get paid a ton. They usually get paid most of it in stock options, so they have to raise the share value to benefit the most. Who do you think is more likely to make immoral decisions to boost the company's short-term value, the guy getting paid 200k, or the guy getting paid 5 mill anyway + anywhere between 0-50 million in stock options depending on how well they the company does?
apparently the idea is to intimidate companies from producing arms for Ukraine:
By making executives and employees fear becoming targets, Moscow reportedly hopes to discourage European manufacturers from supplying weapons, drones, and military technologies to Ukraine.
The use of criminal organizations allows Russian intelligence services to conduct operations through intermediaries while making it more difficult for investigators to establish direct connections to Moscow.
Fight fire with fire. Use military police to investigate and take down criminal organizations for national defense. Raid with active duty military personnel rather than local police. Try crimes linked to GRU in military courts.
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Russia vastly underestimates how easy it is to replace executives.
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