Smartmatic, the electronic-voting company, decried Venezuela’s socialist regime for cheating in a 2017 election and a few months later announced it would stop running elections in the South American country after 13 years. But documents from Venezuela’s National Electoral Council obtained by the Miami Herald show that Smartmatic licensed its software for use in three other elections after that, at least two of them secretly: the municipal elections of December 2017 and the disputed presidential election of May 2018.

Sources consulted for this story said the use of Smartmatic software in the municipal and the presidential elections was meant to be kept under wraps, and that Venezuelan officials and company executives agreed to use another company to hide Smartmatic’s involvement. “They literally used a third company to hide the participation of Smartmatic, but it was Smartmatic that provided the technicians to... have the software ready to use in the voting machines,” a source who was on the National Electoral Council at the time told the Herald. Two other sources who served on the electoral council and have first-hand knowledge of the 2017 and 2018 elections confirmed the story. They asked not to be named because they fear for the safety of their family members still in Venezuela.

Smartmatic was in the spotlight again in August, after a federal grand jury in South Florida indicted Roger Piñate, founder and president of the company , on charges of committing foreign corruption and money laundering to secure elections contracts in the Philippines. Piñate, 49, a Boca Raton resident, was charged along with Jorge Miguel Vasquez, 62, of Davie, the company’s former vice president of hardware development, with paying $1 million in bribes to the former chairman of the Philippines’ Commission on Elections, Juan Andres Donato Bautista.

“These bribes were allegedly paid to obtain and retain business related to providing voting machines and election services for the 2016 Philippine elections and to secure payments on the contracts, including the release of value added tax payments,” the U.S. Justice Department said in a news release.

Court records, including a Homeland Security Investigations criminal complaint, indicate that Smartmatic’s contracts with the Philippines were worth $199 million for providing voting machines and other services for the May 2016 election for president, vice president and other positions.