A US soldier has been charged with using inside information to win $400,000 in an online betting market on the Venezuelan President Maduro’s seizure, federal officials announced.
Federal authorities said on Thursday that Gannon Ken Van Dyke “bet a total of approximately $33,034” on the Maduro operation and made more than $409,000 from his bets placed on the raid, according to an unsealed indictment.
Authorities said Van Dyke had insider information on the raid because he “participated in the planning and execution” of the US military operation to seize Maduro.
He has been charged with unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft of nonpublic government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and making an unlawful monetary transaction.
‘Outsized trade’
