Or very a cleaver exit strategy with reverse social engineering, either way whoever it was deserves to be the richest person in the world. They literally saved the mankind from their own kind. Banker, Government or not.

Koko the great ape could of made it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVuNTiqHys0 (yah I know she did not say this, but she could of got there)