Nvidia employee detained in Taiwan as part of chip smuggling probe held on suspicion of falsifying business documents, company says smuggling a nonstarter
News Source : Tom's Hardware UK
News Summary
- Taiwan's Keelung District Prosecutors' Office said on Tuesday it has detained a man surnamed Chang on suspicion of falsifying business documents.
- Investigators searched his home and his workplace on July 24 in connection with the AI chip smuggling case it opened in May.
- Bloomberg reports that Chang works for Nvidia and that the workplace search covered his desk at the company's Taipei office.
- Prosecutors said they consider him strongly suspected of the offenses and cited risks of flight, destruction of evidence, and collusion with witnesses.
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