News Headlines | US soldier charged over bet on Maduro raid in Venezuela
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A U.S. Special Forces soldier, Gannon Ken Van Dyke, who helped plan and execute the January 3, 2026 raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, has been charged by the Justice Department for unlawfully using classified intelligence to place bets on the prediction‑market platform Polymarket. Prosecutors say he used confidential details about the operation to wager that Maduro would be removed from power by January 31, 2026, moving funds to a cryptocurrency exchange and making a series of bets between December 30 and January 2 that yielded more than $404,000 in profits, plus additional smaller gains on other Venezuela‑related contracts. He now faces charges of unlawful use of confidential government information, theft of non‑public government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud and unlawful monetary transaction, with potential prison time, while regulators and policymakers call for tighter oversight of such betting markets.
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