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Israeli Soldiers Accused of Using Polymarket to Bet on Strikes
Source: WSJShin Bet, the country’s internal security agency, said Thursday the suspects used information they had come across during their military service to inform their bets.
One of the reservists and a civilian were indicted on a charge of committing serious security offenses, bribery and obstruction of justice, Shin Bet said, without naming the people who were arrested.
Polymarket is a so-called prediction market that lets people place bets to forecast the direction of events. Users wager on everything from the size of any interest-rate cut by the Federal Reserve in March to the winner of League of Legends videogame tournaments to the number of times Elon Musk will tweet in the third week of February.
The arrests followed reports in Israeli media that Shin Bet was investigating a series of Polymarket bets last year related to when Israel would launch an attack on Iran, including which day or month the attack would take place and when Israel would declare the operation over.
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Another bettor netted more than $400,000 after placing a wager that Nicolás Maduro would soon be out as Venezuela’s leader less than five hours before nighttime explosions rocked the capital of Caracas. The bet on Maduro fueled suspicions that someone used inside knowledge of the closely held U.S. operation to make a quick profit.
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Several U.S. lawyers specializing in prediction markets said the Israeli arrests marked the first time that they were aware of anyone being arrested for insider trading on one of the platforms.
