Michele Spagnulo, a 36-year-old Italian citizen living in Switzerland, used insider information to bet singer D4vd would be Google’s most-searched person of the year in 2025, according to prosecutors.

A Google staffer fraudulently made more than $1 million by using inside information to place Polymarket bets on what users were searching for on Google, authorities say.

Google engineer Michele Spagnuolo charged with commodities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering for allegedly using confidential search data to win $1.2M on Polymarket.