The Norwegian Nobel Committee believes that the leak of data about peace prize winners is related to espionage, committee secretary and director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute Christian Berg Harpviken said. About this write Ria News.
A day earlier, Norwegian newspaper Finansavisen reported that Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was considered an outsider in the race. Suddenly, her win rate increased from 3.6% to over 70%, making her the favorite.
Against this backdrop, some users of the online forecasting platform Polymarket have earned tens of thousands of dollars.
“We have not yet determined exactly what happened, but it is very possible that we were spied on. It is possible that in this case someone stole the information,” Harpviken noted.
He said the Nobel committee “constantly faces” espionage and takes security very seriously. He added that experts will do everything possible to find out whether there was a leak or “the cause lies in something in our system”.
