Aug 9 (Reuters) – Three executives at voting technology company Smartmatic have been charged with funneling $1 million in bribes to a former Philippine election official to secure the country's affairs, U.S. federal prosecutors in Florida said.
Voting system company Smartmatic has charged top executives with bribery
Smartmatic President and co-founder Roger Alejandro Pinate Martinez, 49, and two co-defendants have been charged along with a former chairman of the Philippine Elections Commission on foreign bribery and money laundering, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday.
The London-based company and its U.S. subsidiary in Florida were not named as defendants by the Justice Department.
Documents related to the case were not publicly available Friday and the suspects' attorneys could not immediately be identified.
