[a fool in paradise]

It’s also a technique used in the sex slave (prostitution) racket. Women are smuggled into the country and then blackmailed with threats against their families if they try to leave or go to the cops.

[silverleaf]

This man was obviously under enormous pressure
Why now? And how were others involved?
He was NOT in this alone

Supposedly he was to receive an $850,000 bonus- and before that he kills himself?

It smells of some unbearable coercion as much as of a guilty conscience