Not sure if it's typical, but maybe they did it for the same reason Joseph Stalin used to force other people to co-sign execution orders? Get the blood on as many hands as possible.
If I was running a criminal enterprise, I would make it a point to get my co-conspirators so dirty they wouldn't even THINK about ratting me out.
“Not sure if it’s typical, but maybe they did it for the same reason Joseph Stalin used to force other people to co-sign execution orders? Get the blood on as many hands as possible.”
The dilution of the corruption is the solution. Leftists are the same here, the world over, and throughout history.