Nobel Price Price Leak 'Highly Probably' caused by spying? Machado's chance rises to 73%overnight, increasing eyebrows

A possible leakage before the announcement of the Nobel Prize for Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was ‘highly’ because of spying, the Nobel Institute told Norwegian Media on Saturday. On the forecast market platform Polymarket, the chance of Machado -when rose from 3.75 percent to almost 73 percent overnight from Thursday to Friday, a few hours before the official announcement in Oslo, AFP reports. No experts or media offices listed her among the leading contenders for the prize before the revelation. “This is probably a spying,” the director of the Nobel Institute and Secretary of the Nobel Committee, Kristian Berg Harpviken, told Norway’s TV2 television. The head of the Nobel Committee said on Friday that he did not believe that Machado’s name was leaked. “I don’t think there have ever been leaks throughout the history of the price. I can’t imagine this being the case, ” the chairman of the committee, Jorgen Watne Frydnes, told the NTB news agency. Harpviken said the institute will nevertheless investigate and “where necessary, we will further tighten safety”. Espionage “can make someone on the inside look deliberately leaked information. It is probably not,” he said. “It’s too sure to say for sure, but it’s no secret that the Nobel Institute is subject to spying,” he added. “It is clear that the institution is of interest to actors who want to obtain information, both states and other organizations,” he said, adding, “The motives can be political and economical.” “It’s been going on for many decades.” An extremely limited number of people know in advance the name of the Laureate selected by the five members of the Nobel Committee. In the past, unexpected names of Nobel nomine nomine have arisen in the Norwegian media, which fueled speculation about possible leaks. But that has not been the case in the past year. Machado, an opposition leader prohibited from running in the 2024 presidential election in Venezuela, was awarded “for her tireless work that promotes democratic rights to the people of Venezuela and to bring about her struggle for a fair and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy”, the committee said. This is probably a lot of spying. US President Donald Trump, whose office’s decision to award it to Machado instead of him a sign of “politics above peace”, has long wanted the Nobel Prize for Peace Prize. (With input of AFP)