Up to $ 1 million deposit offered to 3 men accused of fraud in case of connection with NVIDIA systems

(Singapore) The deposit has been offered to three men allegedly related to computer servers exported to Malaysia, which may contain NVIDIA systems.

51 -year -old Chinese National Li Ming was offered a deposit of $ 1 million, and 48 -year -old Singapore Alan Wei Zhaolun received a deposit of USD 800,000.

Aaron Woon Guo Jie, 40 years, also Singapore, a deposit of USD 600,000 was offered.

LI is in the face of two allegations – one of the fraud and one in accordance with the Act on the wrong use of the computer.

Woon and Wei each with two fees for fraud.

Li is accused of committing a fraud on Supermicro, a server supplier, claiming that in 2023 the end user of the server will be the company he was controlled by Luxurite Your Life.

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Apparently, he also gained access to the OCBC bank account without authorization to make and receive transfers to Luxurite Your Life, June 19, 2024.

Woon and Wei are accused of being in a criminal plot to deceive two server providers, Dell and Supermicro.

Apparently, they made false statements in 2024 that the servers would not be transferred to a person other than authorized end users.

The couple worked at Aperia Cloud Services, a technology company from Singapore. Wei was the chief director of the company and was its operational director.

In court on March 13, Li’s lawyer, Wendell Wong, did not question the $ 1 million amount behind the bail, but said that he was reserving the right to visit it again in the future.

He also explained the aspects of the accusation of the conditions of the deposit she imposed.

They included information about the “exclusion zones”, which Li would not be able to go, and witnesses of the prosecutor’s office with whom he could not interact.

The prosecutor’s office stated that the “exclusion zones” included immigration points, including the Woodlands checkpoint and the Changi airport.

She added that Li’s wife was a person interested in investigations, and Li should not talk to her about evidence and investigations related to the case.

Lawyer Wei, Shashi Nathan and lawyer Woon, Sanjiv Kumar Rajan, asked the court for lower deposits for their clients, noticing that they were local and had roots here.

In response, the prosecutor’s office stated that they have serious allegations and investigations on the scale of crimes are ongoing.

The prosecutor’s office stated that the total amount related to Wei and Woon cases was considered about USD 250 million, while the total amount in the Li case was considered to be USD 140 million.

It added that it is believed that Wei received an eight -digit dividend, and Woon received a seven -digit bonus from a company involved in the case.

Matters against all three men were postponed until May 2.

Preliminary investigations have shown that servers of American companies Dell and Supermicro, probably set in NVIDIA Artificial Intelligence (AI), were sent to companies based in Singapore before they were exported to Malaysia.

The probe appeared after anonymous tilt.

Interior matters and the Minister of Law K Shanmugam said on March 3 that the servers most likely contained elements subject to the control of export by the US.

In 2022, the US government imposed a number of export controls to limit the sale of high -performance AI systems to China.

The questions were asked in the US earlier in 2025, when the Chinese start-up launched Deepseek, the AI ​​platform allegedly using NVIDIA systems, a leading designer of AI systems in the USA.

The introduction of Deepseek in January wiped about USD 1 trillion on the values ​​of American technological actions.

The US authorities analyze the potential export control circuit for advanced NVIDIA systems.

The chip designer in a statement said that there is no reason to think that Deepseek obtained any products controlled by exports from Singapore.

Shanmugam said that the authorities in Singapore are investigating whether Malaysia was the ultimate goal of servers or servers went elsewhere.

He added that if there were false statements regarding the destination of the servers in Singapore, then a crime was committed by the law of the country. Strait times