CBS report probes insider trading in military bets and Cambodia art theft

In an April 23 indictment, the Justice Department accused U.S. Army soldier Gannon Ken Van Dyke of using classified information about Operation Absolute Resolve, a planned U.S. military move to capture Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, to place roughly $34,000 in bets on Polymarket and make more than $400,000. Online wagers tied to military decisions and outcomes have topped $1 billion this year.

CBS folded that material into an encore presentation that aired June 28 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS and Paramount+, pairing the betting probe with an updated investigation into Cambodia’s long campaign to recover looted antiquities.

Cambodia’s recovery effort has stretched for 14 years as officials tried to trace thousands of sacred stone, bronze and gold artifacts stolen from religious sites across the country. Cambodia has about 4,000 temples, and nearly all of them have been looted. Angkor Wat, nearly 1,000 years old and spanning about 400 acres, is the best-known of them.

The looting began nearly a century ago under French colonial rule and expanded into a global business in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s during genocide, civil war and political turmoil. Much of that trade ran through Douglas Latchford, the British dealer who was indicted in New York in 2019 and died in 2020 at age 88 before extradition. Cambodia received 74 artifacts from the United Kingdom in February 2026 under a 2020 agreement tied to the Latchford family, then welcomed two Khmer antiquities from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in June 2026 after seizure by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

Anderson Cooper and lawyer Brad Gordon worked with investigators, archaeologists and art scholars to trace objects from temple sites such as Sandak and push them back toward Phnom Penh, where the Cambodian Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts and the National Museum of Phnom Penh continue to receive the returns.