A US Army soldier has been indicted on Thursday for using classified military intelligence to place winning bets on former Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro's capture. This is the latest and most explosive case in a growing pattern of insider trading on prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi.
'Information leakage to our adversaries': When prediction markets spiral out of control
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