FORMER and incumbent officials of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) were charged with plunder and graft at the Office of the Ombudsman on Monday in connection with a multi-million peso deal awarded to Smartmatic for the repair and diagnostics of 82,000 Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines in 2015.

Named respondents in the complaint filed by former Negros Oriental Rep. Jacinto Paras

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