Mystery Trader Made $400K Betting on Venezuelan Dictator Nicolás Maduro’s Capture — and Online Sleuths Speculate ‘It Could Be Barron Trump’

Eric Feigl-Ding, an epidemiologist and public health researcher, called it out as “insider trading” on X.

“A suspicious new Polymarket account has now profited $150K+ via betting on Maduro ouster – the mystery account scooped up ‘YES’ positions for ~7 cents a share as the largest single shareholder. It’s now at 99 cents post-invasion. Disgusting,” he wrote.

Another X user echoed similar sentiments, sharing, “Perfectly normal, totally unsuspicious prediction market activity: A brand-new Polymarket account quietly loads up $32,537 on ‘Maduro out by January 31?’ at just 7¢ per share… Less than 24 hours later – after an unannounced U.S. special forces operation extracts