'Let me be very clear. I did not ask for nor receive any bribe money from Smartmatic or any other entity,' says former Comelec chairman Andres Bautista
Smartmatic has provided the Comelec with poll machines and the technology since the 2010 national elections, the Philippines’ first automated polls. It is 100% privately owned and has no ties to political parties or groups, according to its website. It has yet to respond to Rappler’s request for comment.
The executives and a Taiwan-based vendor which the poll firm partnered with “disguised these payments totaling $1 million to Bautista as fictitious loans to Baumann, a company located outside of the Philippines, while Bautista was chairman of Comelec,” according to the affidavit.The poll firm eventually secured contracts totaling $199 million, for the lease of over 90,000 vote-counting machines and services related to transmission of results.
Robredo’s 2016 rival – now President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. – fought tooth and nail to question the vice presidential election results, after he lost the race by only over 200,000 votes., saying Marcos failed to justify an annulment of elections in three Mindanao provinces, areas in which he claimed the elections were rigged.
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