USA This Thursday, a soldier was arrested who allegedly earned more than $400,000 by betting on the kidnapping and removal of the Venezuelan president. Nicolas Maduro.
In a statement, the US Department of Justice directly points to Gannon as Ken Van Dyke, a special operations soldier who allegedly participated in the controversial military maneuver with which the Pentagon managed to decapitate chavista regime at the beginning of the year.
Federal authorities accuse him of illegal use of confidential information for personal gain, theft of non-public government information, fraud raw materials and electronic fraud.
Trump’s ‘Situation Room’ improvised at Mar-a-Lago during the capture of Nicolás Maduro / Truth Social
“Instead of protecting that information as he was obligated to do, Van Dyke decided to use that classified information to carry out operations on a platform prediction market for personal benefit,” the indictment states.
1,242% profit
Last December, Van Dyke created an account on Polymarketa popular platform bets online. He bet $33,933 on four predictions related to the assault on Caracas ordered by the White Houseone of them the capture of Maduro. So, both seemed like an unlikely act, to say the least. That last bet generated a profit of 1,242%, that is, $404,222.
A few days later, the American president Donald Trump announced the lightning operation against Venezuelaa surprising move even for part of the Republican administration. Van Dyke’s success caught the attention of the media and raised suspicions of illegal use of insider information. Polymarket notified the authorities, who opened the investigation that today he has publicly pointed out to the military man.
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, arriving in the custody of US forces at the Wall Street heliport, in the New York district of Manhattan, New York, to be brought before a court / Kyle Mazza-CNP / Zuma Press / ContactoPhoto
The Department of Justice indicates in a statement that Van Dyke would have tried to hide evidence of his potential crime when trying to delete your account on Polymarket and change the email address associated with your account on a cryptocurrency platform.
Prosecutors in the case have indicated that the soldier was on the warship that participated in the capture of Maduro, although it is unknown exactly what his involvement in the coup was.
Polymarket is part of a booming business in which everything can become a game with moneyfrom basketball games to the hypothetical resurrection of Jesus Christ. A profit mechanism that, also through other platforms such as Kalshiis also trying to squeeze geopolitical events like the guerra in Iranopening the door to the corruption. A user has won close to a million dollars by hitting the attacks that USA e Israel have launched against Tehran since 2024.
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