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I would say it's less shadowy cabal and more of a hiding in plain sight gangster empire thing because there's nothing in place to hold them accountable and won't be in many parts of the world so long as empire is in charge, and to a lesser degree, so long as capitalism is in charge. For contrast, consider the kind of headline that comes out of China along the lines of "person in government position greatly abused it to enrich themself and gets life sentence, or death penalty if they re-offend within X amount of time." That kind of thing simply doesn't happen with major financial crimes in capitalist states. The most that ever happens is a rogue person who breaks financial laws might get held accountable with a prison sentence once in a blue moon.
If we extend that to other types of crimes, it's no wonder this kind of thing goes largely undetected by the general public for so long. With the type of financial abuse that capitalist empire is known for, people are at least more likely to be aware because it tends to have a more visible and broad impact. But for many others kinds of crimes, with the sheer logistical power that capitalists have on hand, who is going to spot what they're doing and stop them? The CIA and other western imperial "intel" orgs who are busy organizing mass murder operations? The FBI who is busy going after racial minorities? The cops who behave like gangs themselves? The individualist liberals who are trimming their suburban garden hedges behind their white picket fences?
Until the working class, the imperialized, the colonized take back power, these lifelong terrorists who frame themselves as visionaries will keep abusing.
Nothing you said is wrong, but the simple version: it's fascism, essentially. The socialist world and its (more-or-less) allies are fighting against capitalism gone completely psychotic, just as in 1941. We shouldn't be surprised to find that the capitalists commit crimes on the level of the worst atrocities of Imperial Japan.
Or hell, for that matter, that they commit crimes on the level of their own colonial ancestors (whom their state power is not so distant from). It reminds me of that quote about Hitler and how it wasn't something new, so much as it was the same tactics of colonialism and empire turned inward.