I run a very small public company, and can say from first hand experience it would be extremely difficult to do something like this let alone do it and not get

I run a very small public company, and can say from first hand experience it would be extremely difficult to do something like this let alone do it and not get caught. All emails and code changes are up for discovery and I don’t work with individual contributors directly so I’m not even sure how I would be able to give an instruction like this without many people wondering what was up. In the early days sure, I could go ask X person to access things directly but after a couple hundred people it doesn’t work that way. Think about an org of hundreds of thousands with the most strict compliance rules in existence. And doing something willful here would be jail time so why would someone already wealthy risk this? Even in a corrupt system people balance risk reward. A fine for the bank, fine, but life ruined forever stretches credulity given the limited upside.