The Justice Department charged voting machine company Smartmatic with conspiring to bribe foreign officials and money laundering in an alleged effort to win business in the Philippines.
Several executives from the company allegedly bribed election officials in the Philippines with more than $1 million.
The payments were made between 2015 and 2018 and were aimed at obtaining a contract with the country’s government for its 2016 presidential election and receiving payment for its work, a filing in a Miami federal court said.
The case comes as Smartmatic is in pending litigation with Fox News for a $2.7 billion lawsuit over the company’s airing of claims that the company helped rig the 2020 U.S. presidential election.