涉走私逾3亿美元英伟达服务器至中国：圣盖博企业主被捕，司法部以三项罪名起诉
洛杉矶10月1日——据美国司法部与联邦检察官办公室（加州中区）10月1日公告，联邦执法人员当日逮捕了企业主Lui（译名从公告拼写），其被指控通过圣盖博的Earthmade Computer Inc.采购受出口管制的、含英伟达GPU的计算机服务器，伪造文件、经新加坡与马来西亚转运，最终运往中国。检方称涉案受管制服务器总价值逾3亿美元，相关行为发生在2023至2024年间。
起诉书共三项罪名：共谋违反《出口管制改革法》与《出口管理条例》（最高20年）、共谋洗钱（最高20年）与出境走私（最高10年），法定最高刑期合计可达50年——这是法定上限而非预期量刑，最终由法官裁定。调查由FBI反情报与间谍部门、国防刑事调查局与商务部工业与安全局出口执法办公室共同执行，起诉由司法部国家安全司与联邦助理检察官负责。
加州中区代理联邦检察官比尔·埃塞利（Bill Essayli）在公告中表示，被告 allegedly（据指控）利用虚假文件与第三国转运走私受管制服务器。司法部同时声明：起诉书仅为指控，被告在被法庭证明有罪之前推定无罪；截至10月3日，未公布审判日期，被告方尚未在案卷中提交回应。南加州此前已有两名中国公民被控出口英伟达硬件的案件，本案是这一波芯片走私执法中的最新一例。
信息来源：美国司法部与加州中区联邦检察官办公室10月1日公告；《华尔街日报》、路透社等10月2日跟进报道。
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DOJ: San Gabriel Businessman Arrested in Alleged $300 Million Smuggling of Nvidia Servers to China
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1 — Federal agents on Oct. 1 arrested businessman Greg Lui, who prosecutors allege used Earthmade Computer Inc. of San Gabriel to buy export-controlled computer servers containing Nvidia GPUs from U.S. manufacturers, falsified documentation, and routed the equipment through Singapore and Malaysia to China, according to the Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California. Prosecutors put the total hardware value at more than $300 million and place the alleged conduct in 2023 and 2024.
The indictment carries three counts — conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act and the Export Administration Regulations (up to 20 years), conspiracy to commit money laundering (up to 20 years) and outbound smuggling (up to 10 years) — a combined statutory maximum of up to 50 years. These are ceilings, not expected outcomes; sentences are set by a judge. The investigation was conducted by the FBI's Counterintelligence and Espionage Division, the Defense Criminal Investigative Service and the Commerce Department's Office of Export Enforcement, with a Justice Department National Security Division trial attorney assigned alongside assistant U.S. attorneys.
First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said the defendant allegedly used false paperwork and third-country shipments to smuggle the servers. The department notes that an indictment is only an allegation and the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty; as of Oct. 3 no trial date had been made public and no defense response had been entered on the docket. Earlier Southern California charges against two Chinese nationals over Nvidia hardware exports form the backdrop of this latest chip-smuggling case.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney's Office (C.D. Cal.) announcement, Oct. 1; follow-up reporting Oct. 2 by the Wall Street Journal, Reuters and others.
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