An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The US crackdown on chip exports to China continues with the arrest of four people accused of conspiring to illegally export Nvidia chips. Two US citizens and two People’s Republic of China (PRC) citizens, all living in the US, have been charged with a indictment (PDF) unsealed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. The indictment alleges a scheme to send Nvidia “GPUs to China by falsifying paperwork, creating false contracts and misleading U.S. authorities,” John Eisenberg, assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, said in a statement. press release yesterday.
The four detainees are Hon Ning Ho (also known as Mathew Ho), a US citizen born in Hong Kong and living in Tampa, Florida; Brian Curtis Raymond, a U.S. citizen living in Huntsville, Alabama; Cham Li (aka Tony Li), a citizen of the PRC living in San Leandro, California; and Jing Chen (aka Harry Chen), a PRC citizen living in Tampa on an F-1 non-immigrant student visa. The suspects face a series of charges including conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act of 2018, smuggling and money laundering. If convicted and given the maximum sentences, they could spend decades in prison and lose their financial gains. According to the indictment, Chinese companies paid the conspirators nearly $3.9 million. One of the suspects was briefly the CTO of Corvex, a Virginia-based AI cloud computing company that plans to go public. Corvex told CNBC yesterday that it “played no role in the activities cited in the Department of Justice indictment,” and that “the individual in question is not an employee of Corvex. Previously a consultant to the company, he was in the process of transitioning to an employee role, but that offer has been withdrawn.”
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