Once you're past the part where you accept that "powerful people can arrange for all the cameras to take the day off and all the guards to take simultaneous naps, and then access his jail cell and leave without any official record of any of these events transpiring ..."
Why would it be more shocking/ improbable that these "powerful people" would working for/with a billionaire with ties to the CIA and damning blackmail on dozens of the world's too elites?