Smartmatic head charged with bribing Philippine election officials for contracts

Published August 9, 2024 2:56pm ET



The founder of the Smartmatic voting machine company was indicted by a grand jury on Thursday for allegedly conspiring to pay a $1 million bribe to win a contract for the 2016 election in the Philippines.

Venezuelan national Roger Alejandro Pinate Martinez was indicted by a federal grand jury in Florida, where he resides. The indictment accuses him of conspiring to pay a $1 million bribe to secure a contract for the 2016 Philippine election, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, which has yet to make the indictment publicly available.

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