An alleged pump-and-dump artist and a cohort were arrested on a Midtown Manhattan street last week in a case that resembled an international cat-and-mouse game that could have been ripped from a spy thriller. An undercover FBI agent, posing as a middleman with access to crooked stock brokers, coaxed the alleged pump-and-dump financier, Jean-Pierre Neuhaus, from his home in Switzerland to the Big Apple to finalize the deal, The Post has learned.
“I am not so comfortable in the States because in ’98 I was a witness in a stock thing,” Neuhaus, 55, told the undercover fed in a phone call on Jan. 26, according to a recently unsealed court document. Neuhaus’ fears were spot on.
The g-man convinced him to fly to New York to close the stock scam, and the three, including Neuhaus’ cohort and pal, Roland Kaufmann, planned a lunch meeting that day in Manhattan. FBI agents then swooped in and arrested the pair, court papers show.
Neuhaus and Kaufmann, the CEO of a shell company, Axius Inc., based in Dubai, were hoping to unload up to $5 million in worthless stock on unsuspecting US investors.
But they were caught before they ever got the chance to seal the deal —
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