I'm willing to take a stab at what was really going on here. As a result of Operation Warp Speed the UN/WHO/WEF were left sitting on a ton of unused product with a set expiry date. Rather than let it all go to waste they decided to rebrand it as manufactured by Reliance Industries to sell it to non-Hindu Indians. They got gnome to do it because he was supposed to be at the time a thought leader/world-renown expert in the field. Even though it reflected badly on his own cause he was made to do it owing to the tight time constraints involved.