Alleged fraud involving Nvidia chips: Shanmugam says servers exported to Malaysia might have gone elsewhere
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SINGAPORE — An anonymous tip-off about computer servers that might contain Nvidia chips being exported to Malaysia, and possibly to an unknown final destination, sparked off a police investigation. This alert did not come from any country or sovereign entAlleged fraud involving Nvidia chips: Shanmugam says servers exported to Malaysia might have gone elsewhere
SINGAPORE — An anonymous tip-off about computer servers that might contain Nvidia chips being exported to Malaysia, and possibly to an unknown final destination, sparked off a police investigation. This alert did not come from any country or sovereign entity, but the claim was serious enough to get the Singapore authorities to launch an independent investigation, said Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam at a media briefing on March 3 at the Treasury. The servers arrived in Singapore from the US before being exported to Malaysia. But whether they ended up in Malaysia, or another country, is being looked into, he said. Three men were charged with fraud on Feb 27 in a case allegedly linked to chipmaker Nvidia. Shanmugam said preliminary investigations show servers from US firms Dell and Supermicro were sent to Singapore-based companies. The servers were then exported to Malaysia. He said these servers likely contained items subjected to export controls by the US. Read more