Three individuals charged with attempting to break US sanctions on AI chips damning text messages between conspirators reveal intention to find clients to act as pass through partner for customers in China
News Source : Tom's Hardware UK
News Summary
- Stanley Yi Zheng, Matthew Kelly, and Tommy Shad English worked together in an attempt to purchase more than 1,000 servers from an American manufacturer that contained AI chips.
- Zheng is a 56-year-old from Hong Kong, while Kelly, 49, and English, 53, are both based in the U.S. Zheng was arrested on March 22, 2026, while the two other co-conspirators surrendered to federal authorities three days later.
- The revelation follows a report last week where Super Micro employees were charged with smuggling $2.5 billion worth of Nvidia hardware to China.
Three people have been indicted with conspiring to commit smuggling and export control violations after it was revealed that they intended to order over $170 million worth of computer servers contain [+3682 chars]
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