A mysterious trader has turned a $32,000 bet into a nearly half-million-dollar windfall by predicting the exact timing of the U.S. military raid on Venezuela, sparking a global firestorm of insider trading allegations.
The account, which surfaced on the cryptocurrency prediction market Polymarket just days before the 3 January 2026 operation, wagered heavily on the capture of Nicolás Maduro when the odds of such an event were languishing at a mere six per cent.
