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US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid

Active-duty US Army Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a special forces member involved in Operation Absolute Resolve—the covert capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro—was arrested and charged with five criminal counts for using classified information to place bets on prediction market Polymarket. Van Dyke wagered $32,000 that Maduro would be removed by January, winning over $400,000 which he attempted to conceal by moving funds to a foreign cryptocurrency vault; the Commodity Futures Trading Commission also filed a related civil complaint, and Polymarket confirmed it cooperated with authorities after detecting the insider trading.