Singapore prosecutors on Thursday charged another person with fraud for allegedly making false representations to Dell Technologies, expanding a case tied to claims about the intended end-user of purchased servers. The new charge connects the accused to two individuals who were charged in February of last year in related matters.
According to the charge sheets, the newly charged individual, Jenny Lim, is accused of conspiring in 2024 with Alan Wei Zhaolun and Aaron Woon Guo Jie to defraud by telling Dell that Aperia International would be the end-user of servers purchased from the U.S. supplier. The formal charging documents set out that the representations to Dell were false and part of an alleged scheme to mislead the vendor about the ultimate user of the equipment.
Singapore officials previously indicated the servers under scrutiny may have contained chips manufactured by Nvidia. Singapore's Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam stated in March last year that authorities determined the servers involved in the case might include Nvidia chips.
Officials say the servers were supplied by Dell and by artificial intelligence server maker Super Micro Computer to companies based in Singapore, and that the equipment was subsequently sent on to Malaysia. Authorities have not established whether Malaysia was the final destination for the servers.
The United States imposed a ban in 2022 on exports of its highest-end Nvidia chips to China, citing concerns that such components could be used for military applications. In January this year, U.S. authorities approved sales of a second-tier Nvidia chip, the H200, although those approvals came with conditions.
In Nvidia's filings, revenue is reported by the headquarters location of its customers. For the 2026 financial year, Nvidia said sales in the United States, Taiwan and China together accounted for 98% of its revenue. In a separate filing for an earlier fiscal year, Nvidia reported that Singapore was its second-largest market after the United States, representing 18% of total revenue, while noting that only 1% of Nvidia chips physically went to Singapore for deployment in data centres.
Separately, U.S. authorities charged three people associated with Super Micro, including its co-founder, in March with allegedly helping to smuggle at least $2.5 billion of U.S. AI technology to China in violation of export controls.
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