Mission Impossible 2 - a fatal flaw in the villain’s plan

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I was watching Mission Impssible 2 last night and I noticed the villains plan had a major flaw that had nothing to do with Ethan Hunt.

Basically the plan was:
A) become a majority stakeholder in a biotech company
B) infect someone with a virus for which the company had the only cure
C) release that person where the virus would spread quickly, thus causing a pandemic.
D) have the company release the cure
E) when the stock shares go up as a result of the pandemic and cure, sell the shares.

What the villain apparently didn’t count on, though, is that these kinds of market moves are a great way to get securities regulators up your ass, as this would be considered a serious violation of securities law. The government would ask questions like, why did the villain become a majority stakeholder right before the pandemic? Why did he sell his positions just when the stock price shot up? Did he know this pandemic would happen and that the company had the only cure?