미국 군인이 마두로 급습 기밀정보를 이용해 폴리마켓 베팅에서 40만 달러 이상 획득한 혐의로 기소
US soldier charged with using classified intel to win $400K Polymarket bet on Maduro raid
Associated Press
· 🇺🇸 New York, US
https://apnews.com/author/hallie-golden
EN
2026-04-25 00:30
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도널드 트럼프 대통령은 베네수엘라 대통령 니콜라스 마두로를 포획하기 위한 군사작전에 참여한 미국 군인이 작전 관련 기밀정보를 이용해 온라인 베팅 시장에서 40만 달러 이상을 획득한 혐의로 기소된 사실을 알지 못했다고 말했다.
특수부대 군인 개논 켄 반 다이크는 2025년 1월 마두로 포획 작전에 참여했으며, 예측시장 사이트 폴리마켓에서 돈을 버는 데 기밀정보에 대한 접근 권한을 이용했다고 뉴욕 연방검사실이 발표했다.
반 다이크는 개인 이득을 위한 기밀 정부 정보의 불법 사용, 비공개 정부 정보 도용, 상품 사기, 전신사기 및 불법 금전 거래 혐의로 사법부로부터 기소되었다. 그는 수년간 감옥에 갈 수 있다.
38세의 반 다이크는 2025년 12월 8일부터 약 1개월간 마두로 포획 계획과 실행에 참여했다. 작전 관련 "기밀 또는 민감한 정보"를 공개하지 않기로 약속하는 비공개 약정에 서명했음에도 불구하고, 검사들은 육군 군인이 2026년 1월 31일까지 마두로가 권력에서 물러나는 것과 관련된 일련의 베팅을 하기 위해 이 정보를 사용했다고 주장한다.
폴리마켓은 세계 최대 규모의 예측시장 중 하나로, 기밀 정부 정보를 거래하는 사람을 발견했으며 미국 법무부에 경고하고 "수사에 협력했다"고 밝혔다.
상품선물거래위원회(CFTC)는 목요일 반 다이크를 상대로 별도의 고발장을 제출했다. 고발장은 반 다이크가 12월 26일 개인 은행 계좌에서 암호화폐 거래소 계좌로 35,000달러를 이동했다고 주장하며, 이는 미국군이 카라카스로 비행하여 마두로를 체포할 1주일 남짓 전이었다.
반 다이크는 32,500달러 이상을 사용하여 마두로가 권력에서 제거될 시기에 대해 일련의 베팅을 했다. 그는 12월 30일부터 1월 2일 사이에 베팅을 했으며, 대부분은 첫 미사일이 카라카스에 떨어지기 몇 시간 전인 1월 2일 밤에 발생했다.
반 다이크가 마두로 권력에서 벗어나는 것에 대해 한 베팅으로 인해 "40만 달러 이상의 이익"이 발생했다. 기타 베네수엘라 관련 계약에 대한 베팅은 군인에게 5,000달러 이상의 이익을 안겨주었다.
반 다이크는 2008년에 육군에 입대했으며, 2023년에 육군의 차상위 이병 계급인 상사 계급으로 승진했다. 연방 검사들은 그가 특수부대 커뮤니티의 일원이었으며 노스캐롤라이나주 페이엇빌 근처 브래그 포트에 주둔했다고 말했다.
고발장은 반 다이크가 배 갑판에서 촬영되었으며 "미국 군사 전투복을 입고 총을 들고 미국 군사 전투복을 입은 다른 3명과 함께 서 있었다"고 말했다.
국방부는 이 사건에 대한 질문을 육군과 법무부에 회부했다.
특수부대 군인 개논 켄 반 다이크는 2025년 1월 마두로 포획 작전에 참여했으며, 예측시장 사이트 폴리마켓에서 돈을 버는 데 기밀정보에 대한 접근 권한을 이용했다고 뉴욕 연방검사실이 발표했다.
반 다이크는 개인 이득을 위한 기밀 정부 정보의 불법 사용, 비공개 정부 정보 도용, 상품 사기, 전신사기 및 불법 금전 거래 혐의로 사법부로부터 기소되었다. 그는 수년간 감옥에 갈 수 있다.
38세의 반 다이크는 2025년 12월 8일부터 약 1개월간 마두로 포획 계획과 실행에 참여했다. 작전 관련 "기밀 또는 민감한 정보"를 공개하지 않기로 약속하는 비공개 약정에 서명했음에도 불구하고, 검사들은 육군 군인이 2026년 1월 31일까지 마두로가 권력에서 물러나는 것과 관련된 일련의 베팅을 하기 위해 이 정보를 사용했다고 주장한다.
폴리마켓은 세계 최대 규모의 예측시장 중 하나로, 기밀 정부 정보를 거래하는 사람을 발견했으며 미국 법무부에 경고하고 "수사에 협력했다"고 밝혔다.
상품선물거래위원회(CFTC)는 목요일 반 다이크를 상대로 별도의 고발장을 제출했다. 고발장은 반 다이크가 12월 26일 개인 은행 계좌에서 암호화폐 거래소 계좌로 35,000달러를 이동했다고 주장하며, 이는 미국군이 카라카스로 비행하여 마두로를 체포할 1주일 남짓 전이었다.
반 다이크는 32,500달러 이상을 사용하여 마두로가 권력에서 제거될 시기에 대해 일련의 베팅을 했다. 그는 12월 30일부터 1월 2일 사이에 베팅을 했으며, 대부분은 첫 미사일이 카라카스에 떨어지기 몇 시간 전인 1월 2일 밤에 발생했다.
반 다이크가 마두로 권력에서 벗어나는 것에 대해 한 베팅으로 인해 "40만 달러 이상의 이익"이 발생했다. 기타 베네수엘라 관련 계약에 대한 베팅은 군인에게 5,000달러 이상의 이익을 안겨주었다.
반 다이크는 2008년에 육군에 입대했으며, 2023년에 육군의 차상위 이병 계급인 상사 계급으로 승진했다. 연방 검사들은 그가 특수부대 커뮤니티의 일원이었으며 노스캐롤라이나주 페이엇빌 근처 브래그 포트에 주둔했다고 말했다.
고발장은 반 다이크가 배 갑판에서 촬영되었으며 "미국 군사 전투복을 입고 총을 들고 미국 군사 전투복을 입은 다른 3명과 함께 서 있었다"고 말했다.
국방부는 이 사건에 대한 질문을 육군과 법무부에 회부했다.
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President Donald Trump said he was unaware of the charges brought to a U.S. soldier involved in the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro that has been charged with using classified information about the mission to win more than $400,000 in an online betting market, according to officials.
The Polymarket prediction market website is displayed on a computer screen, Jan. 11, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Wyatte Grantham-Philips, File)
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gives a press conference at the Miraflores presidential palace, March 12, 2020, in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
A sign for Fort Bragg is seen, March 7, 2025, in Fort Bragg, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Seward, File)
Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, far right, listens as his defense attorney, Barry Pollack, center, addresses Judge Alvin Hellerstien (not pictured), as Maduro’s wife Cilia Flores, far left, looks on. Thursday, March 26, 2026, in Manhattan federal court inNew York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
President Donald Trump said he was unaware of the charges brought to a U.S. soldier involved in the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro that has been charged with using classified information about the mission to win more than $400,000 in an online betting market, according to officials.
The Polymarket prediction market website is displayed on a computer screen, Jan. 11, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Wyatte Grantham-Philips, File)
The Polymarket prediction market website is displayed on a computer screen, Jan. 11, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Wyatte Grantham-Philips, File)
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gives a press conference at the Miraflores presidential palace, March 12, 2020, in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gives a press conference at the Miraflores presidential palace, March 12, 2020, in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
A sign for Fort Bragg is seen, March 7, 2025, in Fort Bragg, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Seward, File)
A sign for Fort Bragg is seen, March 7, 2025, in Fort Bragg, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Seward, File)
Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, far right, listens as his defense attorney, Barry Pollack, center, addresses Judge Alvin Hellerstien (not pictured), as Maduro’s wife Cilia Flores, far left, looks on. Thursday, March 26, 2026, in Manhattan federal court inNew York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, far right, listens as his defense attorney, Barry Pollack, center, addresses Judge Alvin Hellerstien (not pictured), as Maduro’s wife Cilia Flores, far left, looks on. Thursday, March 26, 2026, in Manhattan federal court inNew York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. special forces soldier involved in the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been charged with using classified information about the mission to win more than $400,000 in an online betting market, federal officials announced Thursday.
Gannon Ken Van Dyke was part of the operation to capture Maduro in January and used his access to classified information to make money on the prediction market site Polymarket, the federal prosecutor’s office in New York said.
He has been charged by the Justice Department 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. He could face years in prison.
Van Dyke, 38, was involved in the planning and execution of capturing Maduro for about a month beginning Dec. 8, 2025, according to the federal prosecutor’s office. Even though he signed nondisclosure agreements promising to not divulge “any classified or sensitive information” related to the operations, prosecutors say the Army soldier used this information to make a series of bets related to Maduro being out of power by Jan. 31, 2026.
“This involved a U.S. soldier who allegedly took advantage of his position to profit off of a righteous military operation,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a post to social media.
A telephone number listed for Van Dyke in public records was not in service. There was not yet an attorney listed for him in court documents.
Polymarket, one of the largest prediction markets in the world, said it had found someone trading on classified government information, alerted the U.S. Department of Justice and “cooperated with their investigation.”
“Insider trading has no place on Polymarket,” the company said in a statement.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal agency that regulates prediction markets, announced Thursday it had filed a parallel complaint against Van Dyke.
That complaint alleges that Van Dyke moved $35,000 from his personal bank account into a cryptocurrency exchange account on Dec. 26 — a little over a week before U.S. forces would fly into Caracas and seize Maduro.
Van Dyke used more than $32,500 to make a series of bets on when Maduro might be removed from power, according to the complaint. He placed those bets between Dec. 30 and Jan. 2, with the vast majority occurring the night of Jan. 2 — just hours before the first missiles would fall on Caracas.
In the early hours of Jan. 3, President Donald Trump posted on his social media platform a photo of the now-captured Venezuelan leader, wearing a gray sweatsuit, headphones and a blindfold.
The bets Van Dyke made on Maduro leaving power resulted in “more than $404,000 of profits,” the complaint said. Bets on three other Venezuela-related contracts netted the solider more than $5,000, according to the document.
“The defendant was entrusted with confidential information about U.S. operations and yet took action that endangered U.S. national security and put the lives of American service members in harm’s way,” said Michael Selig, the commission’s chairman.
The massive profits from the well-timed bets aroused public attention days after the raid and brought bipartisan calls for stricter regulation of the markets where people can wager on just about anything.
Officials allege that shortly after the operation, Van Dyke put most of the money he won in a foreign cryptocurrency vault and then into a new brokerage account. He also asked Polymarket to delete his account, saying he had lost access to his email associated with the account, according to the federal prosecutor’s office.
Trump, when asked about the case Thursday, drew parallels between the embattled soldier and late professional baseball player Pete Rose, who was banned from the sport amid accusations that he placed bets on his own team.
“The whole world, unfortunately, has become somewhat of a casino, and you look at what’s going on all over the world and Europe and every place, they’re doing these betting things,” Trump told reporters.
The Trump administration has been a key ally of the growing prediction market industry in a critical legal fight with states seeking to ban the platforms. The president’s eldest son is an adviser for both Polymarket and its competitor Kalshi, and a Polymarket investor. Trump’s social media platform Truth Social is also launching its own cryptocurrency-based prediction market called Truth Predict.
Van Dyke joined the Army in 2008 and, in 2023, was promoted to the rank of master sergeant, the second-highest enlisted rank in the Army, according to the indictment. Federal prosecutors said he was part of the special forces community and was stationed at Fort Bragg near Fayetteville, North Carolina, but their indictment offered little other details about his military service.
The document said Van Dyke was photographed following the raid on the deck of a ship “wearing U.S. military fatigues, and carrying a rifle, standing alongside three other individuals wearing U.S. military fatigues.”
The Pentagon referred questions on the case to the Army and the Justice Department.
Army officials declined to provide Van Dyke’s service record. Typically, the military services are reticent to offer details about members of the special forces and take measures to keep their identities secret.
The high-profile indictment comes as bipartisan lawmakers are considering legislation to ban prediction markets from allowing bets on war, assassinations or terrorist attacks.
Earlier this month, The Associated Press reported that a group of new accounts on Polymarket made highly specific, well-timed bets on whether the U.S. and Iran would reach a ceasefire on April 7, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits for the new customers. On the same day the AP published the report, the White House warned staff against using private information to trade on prediction markets.
On Wednesday, Kalshi fined and suspended three congressional candidates who the company said wagered on the outcome of their own elections.
Golden reported from Seattle, and Schoenbaum from Salt Lake City.
The Polymarket prediction market website is displayed on a computer screen, Jan. 11, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Wyatte Grantham-Philips, File)
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gives a press conference at the Miraflores presidential palace, March 12, 2020, in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
A sign for Fort Bragg is seen, March 7, 2025, in Fort Bragg, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Seward, File)
Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, far right, listens as his defense attorney, Barry Pollack, center, addresses Judge Alvin Hellerstien (not pictured), as Maduro’s wife Cilia Flores, far left, looks on. Thursday, March 26, 2026, in Manhattan federal court inNew York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
President Donald Trump said he was unaware of the charges brought to a U.S. soldier involved in the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro that has been charged with using classified information about the mission to win more than $400,000 in an online betting market, according to officials.
The Polymarket prediction market website is displayed on a computer screen, Jan. 11, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Wyatte Grantham-Philips, File)
The Polymarket prediction market website is displayed on a computer screen, Jan. 11, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Wyatte Grantham-Philips, File)
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gives a press conference at the Miraflores presidential palace, March 12, 2020, in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gives a press conference at the Miraflores presidential palace, March 12, 2020, in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
A sign for Fort Bragg is seen, March 7, 2025, in Fort Bragg, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Seward, File)
A sign for Fort Bragg is seen, March 7, 2025, in Fort Bragg, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Seward, File)
Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, far right, listens as his defense attorney, Barry Pollack, center, addresses Judge Alvin Hellerstien (not pictured), as Maduro’s wife Cilia Flores, far left, looks on. Thursday, March 26, 2026, in Manhattan federal court inNew York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, far right, listens as his defense attorney, Barry Pollack, center, addresses Judge Alvin Hellerstien (not pictured), as Maduro’s wife Cilia Flores, far left, looks on. Thursday, March 26, 2026, in Manhattan federal court inNew York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. special forces soldier involved in the military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been charged with using classified information about the mission to win more than $400,000 in an online betting market, federal officials announced Thursday.
Gannon Ken Van Dyke was part of the operation to capture Maduro in January and used his access to classified information to make money on the prediction market site Polymarket, the federal prosecutor’s office in New York said.
He has been charged by the Justice Department 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. He could face years in prison.
Van Dyke, 38, was involved in the planning and execution of capturing Maduro for about a month beginning Dec. 8, 2025, according to the federal prosecutor’s office. Even though he signed nondisclosure agreements promising to not divulge “any classified or sensitive information” related to the operations, prosecutors say the Army soldier used this information to make a series of bets related to Maduro being out of power by Jan. 31, 2026.
“This involved a U.S. soldier who allegedly took advantage of his position to profit off of a righteous military operation,” FBI Director Kash Patel said in a post to social media.
A telephone number listed for Van Dyke in public records was not in service. There was not yet an attorney listed for him in court documents.
Polymarket, one of the largest prediction markets in the world, said it had found someone trading on classified government information, alerted the U.S. Department of Justice and “cooperated with their investigation.”
“Insider trading has no place on Polymarket,” the company said in a statement.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal agency that regulates prediction markets, announced Thursday it had filed a parallel complaint against Van Dyke.
That complaint alleges that Van Dyke moved $35,000 from his personal bank account into a cryptocurrency exchange account on Dec. 26 — a little over a week before U.S. forces would fly into Caracas and seize Maduro.
Van Dyke used more than $32,500 to make a series of bets on when Maduro might be removed from power, according to the complaint. He placed those bets between Dec. 30 and Jan. 2, with the vast majority occurring the night of Jan. 2 — just hours before the first missiles would fall on Caracas.
In the early hours of Jan. 3, President Donald Trump posted on his social media platform a photo of the now-captured Venezuelan leader, wearing a gray sweatsuit, headphones and a blindfold.
The bets Van Dyke made on Maduro leaving power resulted in “more than $404,000 of profits,” the complaint said. Bets on three other Venezuela-related contracts netted the solider more than $5,000, according to the document.
“The defendant was entrusted with confidential information about U.S. operations and yet took action that endangered U.S. national security and put the lives of American service members in harm’s way,” said Michael Selig, the commission’s chairman.
The massive profits from the well-timed bets aroused public attention days after the raid and brought bipartisan calls for stricter regulation of the markets where people can wager on just about anything.
Officials allege that shortly after the operation, Van Dyke put most of the money he won in a foreign cryptocurrency vault and then into a new brokerage account. He also asked Polymarket to delete his account, saying he had lost access to his email associated with the account, according to the federal prosecutor’s office.
Trump, when asked about the case Thursday, drew parallels between the embattled soldier and late professional baseball player Pete Rose, who was banned from the sport amid accusations that he placed bets on his own team.
“The whole world, unfortunately, has become somewhat of a casino, and you look at what’s going on all over the world and Europe and every place, they’re doing these betting things,” Trump told reporters.
The Trump administration has been a key ally of the growing prediction market industry in a critical legal fight with states seeking to ban the platforms. The president’s eldest son is an adviser for both Polymarket and its competitor Kalshi, and a Polymarket investor. Trump’s social media platform Truth Social is also launching its own cryptocurrency-based prediction market called Truth Predict.
Van Dyke joined the Army in 2008 and, in 2023, was promoted to the rank of master sergeant, the second-highest enlisted rank in the Army, according to the indictment. Federal prosecutors said he was part of the special forces community and was stationed at Fort Bragg near Fayetteville, North Carolina, but their indictment offered little other details about his military service.
The document said Van Dyke was photographed following the raid on the deck of a ship “wearing U.S. military fatigues, and carrying a rifle, standing alongside three other individuals wearing U.S. military fatigues.”
The Pentagon referred questions on the case to the Army and the Justice Department.
Army officials declined to provide Van Dyke’s service record. Typically, the military services are reticent to offer details about members of the special forces and take measures to keep their identities secret.
The high-profile indictment comes as bipartisan lawmakers are considering legislation to ban prediction markets from allowing bets on war, assassinations or terrorist attacks.
Earlier this month, The Associated Press reported that a group of new accounts on Polymarket made highly specific, well-timed bets on whether the U.S. and Iran would reach a ceasefire on April 7, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits for the new customers. On the same day the AP published the report, the White House warned staff against using private information to trade on prediction markets.
On Wednesday, Kalshi fined and suspended three congressional candidates who the company said wagered on the outcome of their own elections.
Golden reported from Seattle, and Schoenbaum from Salt Lake City.