A US Army Special Forces soldier has been charged with using classified information to make more than $400,000 (€342,480) betting on an online prediction market tied to the January operation that captured former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro , the US Justice Department said on Thursday. Gannon Ken Van Dyke, 38, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, allegedly used sensitive details from the mission to place around 13 wagers on Polymarket, an online betting market, that US forces would enter Caracas and depose Maduro . According to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, "Van Dyke participated in the planning and execution" of the military operation to capture Maduro and "used his access to classified information about that operation to personally profit." He later moved most of the proceeds into a foreign cryptocurrency account before transferring funds to a new brokerage account, prosecutors allege. What did US authorities say?…