So in your mental model of how this works, Pablo Escobar (or whoever) rings up the CEO of multinational banks and says "I've got a business proposition for you."?
No, this is not new. This is one of the oldest games there is, so it's more like grooming young lawyers/bankers to step into a role, a type, that's existed for hundreds of years. You have a pipeline of strivers to choose from, you have ultimate leverage over them. You force their hand.