US EditionDOJ Indicts Voting Machine Company Smartmatic over Allegedly Bribing Philippines Official
- Smartmatic and its executives were indicted for allegedly bribing a Philippine official to secure election contracts, with the indictment stating they "caused at least $1 million in bribes to be paid" to Juan Andres Donato Bautista, the former chairman of the Commission on Elections of the Philippines.
- The charges include conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and money laundering, with potential prison sentences of up to 20 years for the laundering counts.
- Smartmatic denied the allegations, asserting that the claims are targeted and unjust.
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DOJ indicts voting machine company Smartmatic over allegedly bribing Philippines official
SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — The Department of Justice brought charges Thursday against the voting machine company Smartmatic, accusing it of allegedly bribing an official in the Philippines to win contracts, according to court papers filed in the Southern District of Florida. The indictment accuses Smartmatic and a number of employees of bribing a Philippine official in order to retain business, specifically in re…
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Smartmatic Charged with Money Laundering, Bribing Election Officials.
PULSE POINTSWHAT HAPPENED: Federal prosecutors charged Smartmatic with money laundering and bribing Philippine election officials.WHO WAS INVOLVED: Smartmatic, co-founder Roger Piñate, and Philippine election official Juan Andrés Donato Bautista.WHEN & WHERE: Payments were made between 2015 and 2018, related to the 2016 Philippine presidential election.IMPACT: Raises questions about election integrity and corporate influence.IN FULLOn Thursday, …
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Voting machine firm Smartmatic indicted in bribery case
Share This Story(Daily Caller News Foundation) — A federal grand jury in Miami on Thursday charged multinational election technology company Smartmatic and several of its top executives with orchestrating a multimillion-dollar bribery and money-laundering scheme. In 2024, prosecutors charged Roger Alejandro Piñate Martinez and co-defendant Jorge Miguel Vásquez with laundering bribe money tied to inflated voting machine contracts in the Philippin…
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