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Singaporean authorities seized former Megaspeed chief executive Alice Huang’s passport in June 2025 while examining possible illicit transfers of advanced Nvidia chips to China, Singapore’s Home Affairs Ministry said. Huang had arrived for a voluntary post-shipment verification interview requested by the U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security, according to the ministry.
The ministry said investigators examined whether Huang and Megaspeed made false declarations involving purchases of Supermicro servers equipped with Nvidia artificial intelligence chips. It said Huang’s passport was returned in February 2026 without criminal charges, but that she was permanently barred from entering Singapore after authorities concluded she had provided inaccurate information about her role at Megaspeed.
Singapore said it sought assistance from U.S. authorities and cooperation from Supermicro during the investigation but received limited engagement. A source said investigators suspected hardware may have been shipped to Malaysia and then potentially to China. Megaspeed denied wrongdoing, while Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said there was no indication that chips had been re-exported.
Singapore’s ministry said six other people connected to Megaspeed were wanted for questioning and were no longer in the country. Chinese authorities rejected espionage allegations concerning Huang as unfounded.
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