This sounds like a business plan worthy of Goldman Sachs. If you ask these people to buy in at $10 a share, knowing full well you intend to short it and get it down to a buck a share so Rahim can sell out here and buy back in there, that sounds like stock manipulation and it's a scam--
Evidence of meeting #13 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was company.
A recording is available from Parliament.