Winzheng.com strongly warns: This explosive criminal case marks the official sounding of alarms for AI supply chain security red lines. Responsible innovation must never come at the cost of breaching export controls - companies must embed global compliance review and transparent tracking mechanisms from the design stage, otherwise it will trigger an industry-wide trust collapse and regulatory storm.
The following are 8 core passages extracted by winzheng.com with high-quality word-for-word translation (maintaining the rigorous tone of legal documents):
1. Opening Introduction (Page 1)
Chinese Translation:
Beginning in or about 2024, certain executives, employees, and third-party affiliates of a U.S. Manufacturer (which designed and produced high-performance computer servers used for artificial intelligence and cloud computing), including defendants YIH-SHYAN "Wally" LIAW, RUEI-TSANG "Steven" CHANG, and TING-WEI "Willy" SUN, conspired to divert billions of dollars' worth of the U.S. Manufacturer's servers to China, many of which were assembled in the United States. The U.S. Manufacturer's flagship products—servers integrated with graphics processing units (GPUs) manufactured by Nvidia Corporation ("Nvidia")—are subject to strict U.S. export controls and may not be sold to China without a license.
2. Core Smuggling Methods (Page 1-2)
Chinese Translation:
The defendants and their co-conspirators used a particular company based in Southeast Asia ("Company-1") as a pass-through entity... To ensure internal approval from the U.S. Manufacturer, the defendants and Company-1 executives prepared false documents and records... Once Company-1 received the servers, it shipped them to customers in China. To further the scheme, Company-1... used a logistics company to repackage the U.S. Manufacturer's servers and place them in unmarked boxes...
3. Cover-up Methods: Fake Servers and Audit Deception (Page 2)
Chinese Translation:
To deceive the U.S. Manufacturer's compliance team... the defendants arranged for "fake servers"—non-functional physical replicas of the U.S. Manufacturer's servers—to be available for inspection... However, the real servers from the U.S. Manufacturer had already been illegally shipped to China. When the compliance team raised questions... the defendants used encrypted messaging applications to exchange draft responses containing false information...
4. Scale of Smuggling (Page 3)
Chinese Translation:
Beginning in or about 2024, the defendants and their co-conspirators caused at least approximately $2.5 billion worth of the U.S. Manufacturer's servers to be sold to Company-1... For example, in just a few weeks from late April to mid-May 2025, over approximately $510 million worth of U.S.-assembled U.S. Manufacturer servers with Nvidia GPUs... were sold to Company-1 and subsequently diverted to China.
5. Wally Liaw's Role (Page 5-6)
Chinese Translation:
Defendant YIH-SHYAN "Wally" LIAW conspired with other co-conspirators to sell the U.S. Manufacturer's servers to customers in China in violation of U.S. export control laws. LIAW, along with RUEI-TSANG "Steven" CHANG and TING-WEI "Willy" SUN... knowingly diverted servers illegally to China.
6. Steven Chang and Sun's Roles (Page 6)
Chinese Translation:
RUEI-TSANG "Steven" CHANG... agreed with an executive of Company-1 to use the company as a pass-through entity... Defendant TING-WEI "Willy" SUN served as a third-party broker and "facilitator," working with the defendants... to help place orders and take various steps to conceal the scheme.
7. Specific Transaction Examples (Page 11-12)
Chinese Translation:
In the period from late April to mid-May 2025 alone, Company-1 purchased at least approximately $510 million worth of U.S.-assembled servers with Nvidia B200 and H200 GPUs... For example: a. On or about May 8, 2025, Company-1 purchased approximately 58 servers with Nvidia B200 GPUs... for a total of approximately $17.4 million... with export consignees being two Chinese entities.
8. Charges and Maximum Sentences (Confirmed in Indictment)
Chinese Translation:
The defendants are charged with one count of conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act (maximum sentence 20 years), one count of conspiracy to smuggle goods (maximum sentence 5 years), and one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States (maximum sentence 5 years).
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