US arrests soldier who allegedly made $400k on Maduro Polymarket bets

Nicolas Maduro is seen successful handcuffs aft landing astatine a Manhattan helipad connected January 5, 2026 successful New York City.

We knew someone made implicit $400,000 connected suspicious Polymarket bets astir the US cognition to seizure Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, but present we person a name: Gannon Ken Van Dyke. The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced Thursday that Van Dyke is successful custody, connected respective charges, including utilizing confidential authorities accusation for idiosyncratic gain.

As described successful the indictment, prosecutors allege Van Dyke was straight progressive successful the readying and execution of "Operation Absolute Resolve" to seizure Maduro, and successful the days earlier the capture, made respective transactions purchasing "$33,934 worthy of 'YES' shares connected Mad …

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