It's a trait of people with cluster B personality disorders.
Traits like: lack of empathy, lack of remorse, bloated self-image, need for admiration, deceiving others
I've also personally dealt with a couple of people like this, people that ran small charities, and volunteered in community projects.
They are attracted to the perceived moral virtue that these institutions bestow.
Not to disparage that majority of people in these institutions that are trying to do good work.
Once you get close enough to these people to hurt you, you become highly attuned to it.
I was briefly involved with her in a nascent startup (I was leading the engineering side) until she just openly suggested to screw a business partner up, taking up its money and committing fraud, all that without the slightest hint of remorse in her body language. As if I just told you, "oh, it's sunny outside". gg and left that "project" immediately.
Later heard she had to move to Montreal because she had screwed so much people in our hometown that she couldn't find anyone even willing to sit down with her; she was stealing money from everyone she could, pretty much. I wonder what's the endgame for these people or if it's some sort of compulsive disorder, like people who literally can't resist to steal small things from stores.