Before someone asks, changing/fixing it now would result in a hard fork between the updated and original nodes. It also makes the owner's premine more like 3% (2.2 mil / (14726880 blocks * 49 ea + 2.2 mil).
Oh the programmer was just following orders maybe... "sneak in my 3% but make it look like a bug, okay?" ... "okay boss, that'll be another five hundred millirupees, please" ... "no problem, and look, I am feeling generous so I'll thrown in five hundred millidevcoins as a tip, just keep it on the Q.T., okay?"
-MarkM-