US Edition3 Chinese nationals charged with smuggling Nvidia, HP chips to China
Four men indicted for conspiring to smuggle over 400 advanced Nvidia GPUs and HP supercomputers to China via third countries, receiving nearly $4 million, U.S. prosecutors said.
- On Nov. 13, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed charges accusing three Chinese nationals of smuggling Nvidia and HP products to China, according to the indictment.
- With export controls in place, prosecutors say the shipments posed national-security risks as the U.S. Commerce Department bans China from acquiring advanced AI and supercomputing chips linked to PRC military modernization.
- The indictment alleges the scheme used a shell company and falsified documents to hide shipments of Nvidia A100 and H200 GPUs and Hewlett Packard Enterprise products with Nvidia H100 GPUs to China.
- Hon Ning Ho, Jing Chen and Cham Li were arrested recently; Ho faces nine money laundering counts tied to $4 million, and Raymond faces seven related to more than $3.4 million, court documents show.
- The startup Corvex and merger partner Movano Health featured in the public ID of a defendant, and Corvex told CNBC it had no part in the indictment and rescinded Brian Curtis Raymond's offer.
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