Big Bad is the head of a global business focusing on vegetarian alternatives in diet and trying to monopolize the market by sabotaging the meat industry (and sugar industry while at it) so more people would be forced to go vegetarian and from there, the Big Bad can rack up to prices as they like after the "unhealthy foods" have been removed from the markets. (And for extra wickedness, they develop a multi-resistant "super flu" which hits people who have been eating meat that had been pumped up with all types of antibiotics by default like in real life) And if their scheme ever would get exposed or they risk to go under, they would release it in the world and "kill off the unhealthy folks" that way instead.
It is a profitable plot for them, and since they imagine themselves to do humanity a "favor" by making it healthy (by forcing it upon them), they can also be seen as well intended extremists by us the readers as well.
It would also add a moral dilemma where "if the antagonist is using wicked ways to achieve good things, should they be stopped from doing so?"
A little food for thought to process here.
So! To keep a long story short, I'm trying to write up this plot for a crime thriller, and I'm facing a rather major block in the form of the main villain's scheme. As the name of this thread implies, the Big Bad is a Corrupt Corporate Executive, specifically the de facto head of a multi-billion dollar international conglomerate of some kind who happens to be the son of the company's actual owner.
Beyond this, I don't have much to go on, besides the detail that the executive in question is involved with construction and development (presumably amongst other things), and they're also affiliated with local organized crime. I was going to go for a classic Real Estate Scam (incite havoc to lower property prices, then buy the land on the cheap and bulldoze everything to build expensive developments), but I figured that was a tad overdone and everyone would see it coming.
I also considered basing it off a real-life crime or scandal, but as it turns out, wrapping one's head around such things can be a little tricky for a layman such as myself. And chances are it'd have been done already as well, since evil corporate types will always be a topical villain in a capitalistic society. :V
Basically, at its core, I need some kind of shady business scheme that would require a high-ranking executive (not necessarily the CEO - the details earlier about them being such aren't essential) to cooperate with gangsters (which may or may not involve betraying them later on).
"If you think like a child, you will do a child's work."