Three executives from the electronic voting machine company Smartmatic, including one former employee and the company’s current president, have been charged in a bribery and money laundering scheme. “A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida returned an indictment today charging three executives of an election voting machine and service provider company and a former Chairman of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) of the Republic of the Philippines for their roles in an alleged bribery and money laundering scheme to retain and obtain business related to the 2016...

A company that operates election vote counting machines and was put on defense during the 2020 presidential race in the United States with claims of wrong results now has had one of its officials indicted for allegedly bribing election officials in the Philippines to keep and expand its business there. A number of theories arose during the 2020 election about whether vote counts were being manipulated. Smartmatic responded with lawsuits against those making the suggestions, while the defendants have argued that scandal, not defamation, caused the company to lose money....

Two executives at Smartmatic, a voting machine company, were indicted in Florida on Thursday for allegedly bribing officials in the Philippines to secure contracts ahead of the 2016 election there, the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of Florida announced. Smartmatic President Roger Piñate and another executive, Jorge Miguel Vasquez, were indicted on charges that they laundered money across the world — including through Florida — to pay an estimated $1 million in bribes a Philippine official in order to secure contracts surrounding their 2016 election.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday, Aug. 9, the indictment of three current and former executives of Smartmatic, the voting technology company suing right-wing media outlets over 2020 election coverage. Prosecutors said executives used a slush fund to bribe the former top election official in the Philippines, Andy Bautista, in exchange for “obtaining and retaining” business related to providing voting machines and services for the country’s 2016 elections. The bribes allegedly involved at least $1 million. Bautista, who is indicted in another U.S. case, is in hiding.

The president of voting machine company Smartmatic and two other executives were charged with bribing the head of the Philippines election commission in order to get business during the 2016 election, according to the U.S. Justice Department. Between 2015 and 2018, Smartmatic co-founder Roger Alejandro Pinate Martinez, 49, and Jorge Miguel Vasquez, 62, together with others, allegedly caused at least $1 million in bribes to be paid to Juan Andres Donato Bautista, 60, the former chairman of the Philippines' Commission on Elections (COMELEC), according to an indictment filed in the...

The Venezuelan-American founder of voting machine company Smartmatic has been indicted by a grand jury on charges relating to an alleged scheme involving the election technology. The grand jury’s Thursday decision in the Southern District of Florida means executive Roger Pinate, 49, is now charged with one count of conspiracy and three counts of international laundering of monetary instruments. Pinate is a co-founder and president of Smartmatic.

A federal grand jury in Florida indicted Smartmatic co-founder Roger Piñate and another company executive and the former chairman of the Philippines’ Commission on Elections, Andres Bautista, over alleged involvement in a multi-million-dollar bribery and money laundering scheme aimed at influencing the 2016 Philippine elections. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida announced the charges against four defendants unsealed on Friday.

(CNN) — Three current and former executives from Smartmatic, the voting technology company suing right-wing media outlets over their 2020 election coverage, have been charged in the US in connection with an alleged bribery scheme in the Philippines, according to the Justice Department. Among the Smartmatic executives facing charges is the company’s president, Roger Piñate, according to a Justice Department press release. The indictment itself doesn’t appear to be publicly available as of Friday morning.