Firing someone in order to prevent him from quiting is like burning down your house to prevent burglary.

And as pointed out in many comments already - by the salary you can tell it's about a mid-level manager not a senior executive.

Well, if it worked that way than all the websites would have to comply with the least common denominator of all laws in the World including sharia and alike. I'm having hard time imagining a single thing that would be allowed on the Internet.