{"id":69017,"date":"2025-10-12T02:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T02:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/69017\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T02:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T02:13:09","slug":"highly-likely-its-espionage-nobel-institute-suspects-leak-before-maria-machado-peace-prize-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/69017\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Highly likely it\u2019s espionage\u2019: Nobel Institute suspects leak before Maria Machado peace prize reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Nobel Institute believes espionage may have caused a leak that revealed Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado<\/a> as this year\u2019s Nobel Peace Prize winner. Norwegian media reportedly said on Saturday that the breach was \u201chighly likely\u201d linked to spying.<\/p>\n

\"Maria Maria Corina Machado wins the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on October 10, 2025 (AFP) <\/p>\n

Machado\u2019s chances of winning the prestigious award reportedly surged from 3.75 percent to nearly 73 percent overnight on the predictive betting platform Polymarket, news agency AFP said. This spike came just hours before the Nobel <\/a>Committee in Oslo <\/a>officially named her as the 2025 laureate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What further raised eyebrows was that no experts or media outlets had named Machado among the frontrunners before the announcement, sparking questions over whether confidential information had been leaked.<\/p>\n

‘Highly likely it’s espionage’<\/p>\n

Director of the Nobel Institute and secretary of the Nobel Committee, Kristian Berg Harpviken was in an interview with Norway\u2019s <\/a>TV2 television when he said, \u201cHighly likely it\u2019s espionage,\u201d reported the news agency.<\/p>\n

Harpviken added that the institute would look into the matter and \u201cwhere necessary, we will further tighten security.\u201d<\/p>\n

Espionage, he explained, \u201ccould make it appear as if someone on the inside deliberately leaked information. That is not likely.\u201d He added, \u201cIt\u2019s too certain to say for sure, but it\u2019s no secret that the Nobel Institute is subject to espionage.<\/p>\n

It is obvious that the institution is of interest to actors who want to acquire information, both states and other organisations. The motives can be both political and economic. This has been going on for many decades.\u201d<\/p>\n

Committee denies internal leak<\/p>\n

Despite the suspicions, chairman of the Nobel Committee, Jorgen Watne Frydnes, dismissed the notion of an internal breach.<\/p>\n

According to AFP, Frydnes told Norway\u2019s NTB news agency on Friday, \u201cI don\u2019t think there have ever been any leaks in the entire history of the prize. I can\u2019t imagine that\u2019s the case,\u201d<\/p>\n

Notably, the Nobel Peace Prize<\/a> selection is one of the most closely guarded processes in the world, with only a handful of individuals aware of the final decision before the announcement. While there have been previous media reports of supposed leaks, recent years had seen fewer such incidents.<\/p>\n

Machado, who has been barred from contesting Venezuela\u2019s 2024 presidential election, was recognised \u201cfor her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy,\u201d the committee had said.<\/p>\n

The award has reignited political reactions globally. US President Donald Trump, who has long sought the Nobel Peace Prize, criticised the decision through his office, calling it a reflection of \u201cpolitics over peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nobel Institute believes espionage may have caused a leak that revealed Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,49516,49266,49519,49518,49515,49517,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-69017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-nobel-peace-award-espionage","tag-nobel-peace-prize-2025","tag-nobel-peace-prize-2025-winner","tag-nobel-peace-prize-2025-winner-leak","tag-nobel-peace-prize-leak","tag-nobel-peace-prize-winner-leak","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}