中国公民与两名美国公民被控合谋经泰国向中国走私超级智能芯片，涉案订单约1.7亿美元
2026年3月25日，美国司法部宣布，一名中国公民与两名美国公民被控合谋走私与违反出口管制：三人涉嫌从一家位于加州的电脑硬件公司购买装有受出口管制超级智能芯片的服务器，经泰国空壳公司转运至中国。被控三人是56岁的香港居民 Stanley Yi Zheng、49岁、住纽约州 Hopewell Junction 的 Matthew Kelly，以及53岁、住佐治亚州亚特兰大的 Tommy Shad English。
起诉书指控，自2023年5月前后起，三人以泰国公司名义向加州公司（起诉书称 Company-1）订购服务器，实际目的地是中国。2023年10月，English 下单750台服务器、总价约1.7亿美元，其中600台装有列入商务部管制清单、出口中国须许可证的芯片，并签署虚假的《先进计算认证》；2024年1月他支付了2,000多万美元预付款。此后 Company-1 与芯片制造商 Company-2 的合规审查发现 Zheng 的公司位于中国，第二笔500台服务器的尝试同样未果，两笔交易均未完成。调查取得的「GPU Partnership」群聊记录显示，Zheng 曾叮嘱同伙「绝不要提中国」。
刑事起诉书于3月20日在佐治亚州北区联邦法院发出。Zheng 于3月22日被捕、3月23日在加州北区联邦法院首次出庭；Kelly 与 English 于3月25日向联邦当局自首。本案由商务部工业与安全局、国防刑事调查局、国土安全调查局与联邦调查局联合调查。司法部强调，起诉书中的指控只是指控，三名被告在被证明有罪之前推定无罪。
Chinese National and Two U.S. Citizens Charged With Conspiring to Smuggle AI Chips to China in $170 Million Scheme
On March 25, 2026, the Justice Department announced that a Chinese national and two U.S. citizens had been charged with conspiring to commit smuggling and export control violations: the three allegedly sought servers containing export-controlled AI chips from a California-based computer hardware company for shipment to China through Thailand-based front companies. The defendants are Stanley Yi Zheng, 56, of Hong Kong; Matthew Kelly, 49, of Hopewell Junction, New York; and Tommy Shad English, 53, of Atlanta, Georgia.
According to the criminal complaints, beginning in or about May 2023 the three used Thailand-based companies as the purported purchasers of servers from the California company, referred to as Company-1, while intending the chips' ultimate destination to be China. In October 2023 English ordered 750 servers for approximately $170 million, 600 of them containing a chip on the Commerce Control List that required a license for export to China, and signed a false Advanced Computing Certification; in January 2024 he transferred over $20 million as partial payment. Compliance reviews by Company-1 and the chip maker, Company-2, then flagged that Zheng's company was based in China, and a second attempted order of 500 servers also failed; neither deal was completed. Messages in a group chat titled "GPU Partnership" showed Zheng instructing the others: "DO NOT MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT CHINA."
The criminal complaints were issued in the Northern District of Georgia on March 20, 2026. Zheng was arrested on March 22 and appeared in the Northern District of California on March 23; Kelly and English surrendered to federal authorities on March 25. The case is being investigated by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security, the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, Homeland Security Investigations and the FBI. The charges are merely accusations, and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
来源：美国司法部
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图片来源：图：位于华盛顿的美国司法部总部大楼入口标志，本案由司法部国家安全司与佐治亚州北区联邦检察官办公室起诉。G. Edward Johnson 摄，CC BY 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The entrance sign of the U.S. Department of Justice headquarters in Washington; this case is prosecuted by the National Security Division and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia. Photo by G. Edward Johnson, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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