{"id":124675,"date":"2026-04-24T10:49:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=124675"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:49:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:49:26","slug":"us-soldier-allegedly-bet-on-maduro-operation-using-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/124675\/","title":{"rendered":"US soldier allegedly bet on Maduro operation using intel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Web Desk(National Times)-  A US soldier faces charges for using classified information to bet on online prediction markets related to the US operation to capture former Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, the Department of Justice said Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>US Army soldier Gannon Ken Van Dyke, 38, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, allegedly made over $400,000 by using the online platform Polymarket to bet on outcomes related to US forces arriving in Venezuela\u2019s capital Caracas and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1965011\">deposing Maduro<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 an operation he helped plan and execute, according to justice officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US military launched strikes on Caracas on January 3, arresting Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores and whisking them to New York to face drug trafficking charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur men and women in uniform are trusted with classified information in order to accomplish their mission\u2026and are prohibited from using this highly sensitive information for personal financial gain,\u201d Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Polymarket said in a statement it had flagged the user who made the bets to the Department of Justice and cooperated with their investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInsider trading has no place on Polymarket,\u201d the statement said. \u201cToday\u2019s arrest is proof the system works.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Dyke faces one count of wire fraud, one count of an unlawful monetary transaction and three counts of violating the Commodity Exchange Act, according to the indictment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The indictment marks the latest instance of insider information being used to bet on the actions of the second Trump administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in the year, six accounts on Polymarket made $1.2 million after betting that the United States would attack Iran on February 28, the day the war in the Middle East began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No arrests have been made in connection with those bets, and so far there is no evidence US President Donald Trump or White House officials are linked to the transactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe whole world, unfortunately, has become somewhat of a casino\u2026in Europe and every place, they\u2019re doing these betting things,\u201d Trump told reporters Thursday, adding: \u201cI was never much in favor of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1994582\/us-soldier-allegedly-bet-on-maduro-operation-using-intel#conflicts-of-interest\"><\/a>Conflicts of interest<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Democratic lawmakers and other critics have accused Trump and his family of having conflicts of interest since the beginning of his second term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Trump family has made $4 billion off the presidency,\u201d leftist senator Bernie Sanders wrote Thursday in a post on X with a list of alleged income sources, calling it \u201cunprecedented kleptocracy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform about \u201cvery productive\u201d talks with Iran, sending oil prices downward and stocks surging \u2014 and people who placed the flurry of futures trades beforehand likely pocketed tens of millions of dollars, according to calculations by a market operator for AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Members of the Trump family have also made hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from cryptocurrencies, a market he has sought to deregulate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Trump\u2019s son Donald Jr. is a partner at 1789 Capital, which made a multi-million investment in Polymarket last year, leading the prediction market to name him as a company adviser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Van Dyke, who used Polymarket to wager, is convicted on all counts, he faces a maximum sentence of 50 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web Desk(National Times)- A US soldier faces charges for using classified information to bet on online prediction markets related to the US operation to capture former Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, the Department of Justice said Thursday. 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