Singapore case against three on AI chip fraud charges adjourned until Aug 22

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Singapore, 27 June (Reuters) – A Singapore Court on Friday postponed a lawsuit against three men accused of fraud by making false representatives to anonymous server suppliers until August 22nd.

At the hearing, the prosecution, the police’s new documents, and three men, Singapore Aaron Woon Guo Jie and 49 -year -old Alan Wei Zhaolun and China National Li Ming, 51, 51 investigations will need more time to respond to overseas parties, he said.

Previously, in 2023 and 2024, the end users of the goods purchased were accused of representing the server suppliers.

Singapore Interior Minister K Shahanmigam said that in March, the authorities had determined that the servers in the case of fraud may contain NVIDIA chips and that they were investigating the case independently after an anonymous circuit.

In 2022, the United States banned export of high -level chips from Nvidia to China due to concerns they could be used for military purposes in 2022.

The servers were not clear whether Malaysia is the final target for servers, but before being sent to Malaysia, Dell Technologies and Super Microcomplace.

The Singapore case is part of a wider police investigation against 22 people and the company, which is suspected of false representation because of concerns that nations such as Singapore are used in smuggling artificial smuggling to China.

In 2024, Singapore was Nvidia’s second largest market after the United States, and in the last financial year, it constitutes 18% of its total income and a February producer.

However, real shipments to the Asian Trade Center contributed to less than 2% of the total income, as customers used sales to other countries as a center to bill. (Reporting by Jun Yuan Yong; Editing by David Stanway)