Nigel Farage aide received $9M on Polymarket account, report

Convicted fraudster and Nigel Farage backer George Cottrell had $9 million deposited into his Polymarket account by two unknown sources.

That’s according to the Financial Times (FT), which reported that Cottrell’s Polymarket account — which has the username “GCottrell93” — received $8.8 million in October 2024. 

It received $7 million across five different transactions from a wallet on crypto exchange OKX, and received another $1.83 million from a wallet on ChangeNOW. 

These funds were used almost immediately to bet on whether or not Trump would win the US election. From here, the FT claims $13 million in winnings was sent to an OKX wallet while $282,000 was sent to ChangeNOW.

Cottrell was previously convicted of wire fraud in March 2017 after he was caught agreeing to launder drug trafficking proceeds.

For many years, Cottrell and his relationship with Farage had gone largely under the radar. However, this past year has seen him thrust into the limelight after Farage was discovered to have accepted, without declaring, a £5 million gift from multi-billionaire Tether investor Christopher Harborne.  

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