Special Forces Sgt. in Polymarket Maduro raid bet case released; Kalshi says it blocked him
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Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke was involved in planning the U.S. raid to capture Nicolás Maduro even as he made bets that paid off from that raid, an indictment says.
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The Army Special Forces soldier criminally charged in connection with making hugely profitable bets on Polymarket related to the U.S. military raid that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro was released Friday on an unsecured $250,000 bond after appearing in federal court in Raleigh, N.C. Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke was ordered to appear Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan , where he has been indicted on wire fraud and other charges related to allegedly using classified information about the planned operation to win nearly $410,000 from the bets and then trying to cover up the scheme. Kalshi , Polymarket's leading competitor in the prediction markets sector, confirmed on Friday that it had blocked Van Dyke from opening a Kalshi account. Elisabeth Diana, a spokeswoman for Kalshi, said she could not give details of when the 38-year-old Van Dyke tried to open an account or why he was prevented from doing so. Van Dyke, who has served in Army since 2008, was arrested Thursday in North Carolina, where he is based at Fort Bragg. Read more CNBC politics coverage Trump’s lack of focus on economy is spooking Republicans as 2026 election looms Trump orders Navy to ‘shoot and kill any boat’ laying mines in Hormuz Strait U.S. Navy Secretary John Phelan leaving Trump administration: Pentagon Van Dyke was involved in planning and executing the Jan. 3 raid in Caracas that ended with U.S. Special Forces capturing Maduro and his wife and putting them on a Navy ship to be sent to the U.S., where they face federal drug charges in the same court where Van Dyke was recently indicted, prosecutors said. In the week leading up to the raid, Van Dyke opened a Polymarket account and then began making a series of wagers on contracts on questions of whether U.S. forces would be in Venezuela by Jan. 31, whether Maduro would be out of office by that date and on related questions, the indictment alleges. He allegedly wagered about $33,000 in more than a dozen bets, according to the...
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