Manila, April 24 -- The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is looking to include the money laundering case filed against its former chief Andres Bautista before a United States court in its motion for reconsideration (MR) on the Supreme Court's ruling, voiding the disqualification of service provider Smartmatic International from bidding in its projects.

"Definitely (we will include these) because this time it is out in the open. It is now public, officially admitted in court, we will definitely include that in the event that we file the motion for reconsideration," Comelec chairperson George Erwin Garcia said in a media forum in Manila on Wednesday.

Garcia, however, refused to elaborate on the merits of the case.

He said the case again...