The Justice Department’s FCPA case page lists United States v. Juan Andres Donato Bautista, Rojer Alejandro Pinate Martinez, Jorge Miguel Vasquez, Elie Moreno, and SGO Corporation Limited, a/k/a, “Smartmatic”, docket 1:24-cr-20343-KMW, Southern District of Florida. Indictment filed August 8, 2024. Superseding indictment filed October 16, 2025. Page updated November 13, 2025. Those are the names in the caption. Mark Malloch-Brown is not one of them. This page does not write that he was charged, that he is a defendant, or that the indictment names him.
This site fetched the October 16, 2025 superseding indictment (Case No. 24-20343-CR-WILLIAMS(s)). The caption names the same five defendants, including “SGO CORPORATION LIMITED, a/k/a, ‘Smartmatic.’” The charging paper describes SGO as headquartered in the United Kingdom and as a provider of election voting machines and related services, and it states that the SGO corporate structure included entities commonly referred to as Smartmatic, SMMT, or Smartmatic Group. Count 1 charges Roger Alejandro Pinate Martinez, Jorge Miguel Vasquez, and SGO with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Count 3 charges Bautista, Pinate, Vasquez, Moreno, and SGO with conspiracy to commit money laundering. Counts 4–6 charge those five, including SGO, with international laundering of monetary instruments. The alleged conduct period in Count 1 is beginning in or around May 2015 and continuing through in or around February 2018; the general allegations describe 2015–2016 COMELEC contracts for the May 2016 Philippine elections. Those are the government’s charges against the named defendants. They are not a finding by this site. They are not a charge against Malloch-Brown.
Malloch-Brown’s documented SGO role is already on this file: Companies House director of SGO CORPORATION LIMITED (07477910), appointed 29 September 2014, resigned 4 December 2020; SGO’s 25 November 2014 statement that the group was “built on” Smartmatic and that he would become chairman; SGO’s 4 December 2020 statement that he stepped down as Chairman the same day Open Society Foundations named him president. The alleged COMELEC conduct window in the superseding indictment (2015–2018) overlaps that director appointment on the calendar. Chronological overlap is not a count. The superseding indictment this site fetched does not name him. A director appointment is not a share register. This page does not say he owned Smartmatic. It does not say he participated in the alleged scheme. It does not say Smartmatic stole the 2020 U.S. election.
Reported — not a substitute for the original August 8, 2024 charging instrument, which this site did not fetch: The Federalist, October 17, 2025, wrote that the indictment added the parent company of Smartmatic, SGO Corporation Ltd., as a defendant in a case already underway against Smartmatic executives, and that the located copy described alleged bribes in connection with the 2016 Philippine elections. Just the News, October 16, 2025, wrote that three former Smartmatic executives were charged in 2024 and that Smartmatic was not named as a defendant at that time. The copies of those two pieces located for this page do not name Malloch-Brown. They are reporting. The Fact on this page is the DOJ caption and the superseding text this site fetched.