Voting machine company firm suing Fox News linked to Philippine bribe charges


WASHINGTON (AFP): A voting machine company (election firm) currently suing Fox News for defamation has been implicated in an alleged Philippine bribery scheme, CNN reported Friday.

The US Justice Department has filed money-laundering charges against Andres Bautista, a former election administrator in the Philippines, in a case involving four executives from subsidiaries of Smartmatic, according to court documents cited by CNN.

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