It’s a figure of speech you may not have encountered before, relatively common in British English.
But quite apart from that figure of speech, the CEOs and senior management of megacorps that don’t pay tax in such an outrageous way ought to be criminalised.
But quite apart from that figure of speech, the CEOs and senior management of megacorps that don’t pay tax in such an outrageous way ought to be criminalised.