US prosecutors charged a soldier involved in planning the January raid to seize Venezuela’s strongman Nicolás Maduro with placing prediction-market trades on the mission that netted more than $400,000.
Gannon Ken Van Dyke allegedly used classified information to place bets on prediction market Polymarket, according to a federal indictment unsealed on Thursday.
Acting US attorney-general Todd Blanche on Thursday said: “Our men and women in uniform are trusted with classified information in order to accomplish their mission as safely and effectively as possible and are prohibited from using this highly sensitive information for personal financial gain.”