New Delhi, April 25 -- A US soldier has been charged with using classified military intelligence to win over $400,000 on prediction market Polymarket - betting on the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro before the mission was made public. Gannon Van Dyke, a Special Forces master sergeant at Fort Bragg, was granted bond Friday, as it emerged he had also been blocked from trading on rival platform Kalshi, according to Business Insider.

Gannon Van Dyke, a 38-year-old master sergeant stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, has been charged with wire fraud, commodities fraud, theft of non-public government information, unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, and making an unlawful monetary transact...