This is the nature of the setup.exe. It spawns a detached process from that of the parent that started it.

try:

Shell '%COMSPEC% /start /wait setup.exe /s /V"/l*v C:\IT\SAV902.log RUNLIVEUPDATE=0 REBOOT=ReallySuppress
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