US special forces soldier who won $409K on Maduro bet is arrested

A U.S. peculiar forces worker progressive successful the subject cognition that captured Venezuelan person Nicolas Maduro was arrested connected Thursday aft allegedly betting connected Maduro's removal from bureau earlier quality of the raid was made public, a instrumentality enforcement root told CBS News.

Federal investigators judge the worker made bets of much than $33,000 connected the prediction marketplace Polymarket wrong hours of President Trump's announcement successful January that Maduro had been captured, the root said. The bets deed and resulted successful winnings of much than $409,000.

A Justice Department spokesperson did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from CBS News.

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