New Delhi, April 24 -- The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday announced that a soldier named Gannon Ken Van Dyke was arrested and charged after he allegedly bet on the removal of Venezuela's former President Nicolas Maduro before the information was made public.

According to the release, Dyke, who was involved in the military operation to capture Maduro, allegedly made more than $400,000 trading on Polymarket based on classified information regarding the timing of Maduro's arrest.

Dyke is now charged with unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft of nonpublic information, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and conducting an unlawful monetary transaction. According to the indictment, prosecutors say...