Singapore has charged a fifth person in the fraud case surrounding AI servers that prosecutors say may have contained Nvidia chips bound for restricted destinations.
Shi Bingzhe, a 34-year-old Singaporean, faces 41 offences, including acquiring the benefits of criminal conduct, according to charge sheets dated 10 November. Prosecutors allege he bought servers from Aperia International, whose parent company, Aperia Group, is also under investigation.
The case centres on claims that Aperia International misrepresented the end users of AI servers it bought from Dell, Super Micro Computer and Asustek Computer. Singapore’s home affairs minister has said the servers may have contained AI chips made by the US firm Nvidia. Police say the servers were exported to Malaysia, and allege that, between May 2024 and February 2025, 917 servers were bought from Aperia International in 41 transactions.
Four other people were charged in July in connection with the same investigation. Alan Wei Zhaolun, the Aperia Group’s chief executive, Aaron Woon Guo Jie, its head of sales, and Jenny Lim, its chief financial officer, face fraud and money laundering charges, while Li Ming, a controller at another company, Luxuriate Your Life, faces fraud and fraudulent trading charges. Wei has pleaded not guilty.
Police have seized about S$1 million in funds from bank accounts under investigation and issued an order preventing the sale of a Singapore property valued at about S$55 million. Shi was granted bail of S$300,000 on condition he wear an electronic monitoring tag, with the case due back in court on 4 January 2027.
The investigation came to light after the United States began examining whether the Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek had circumvented American restrictions on advanced Nvidia chips by buying them through third parties in other countries, including Singapore. Washington banned the export of high-end Nvidia chips to China in 2022 on national security grounds, and Singapore has since become a focus of enforcement efforts aimed at stopping the hardware reaching restricted buyers through intermediaries.
Nvidia, Dell, Super Micro and Asustek have not been accused of any wrongdoing in the case. Reuters reported it could not reach the parties involved for comment.
Sources: Reuters — https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/singapore-charges-fifth-person-ai-server-fraud-case-2026-11-13/ ; The Edge — https://klse.i3investor.com/web/blog/detail/ceomorningbrief/2026-07-07-story-h501624983-Singapore_Files_New_Charges_in_Nvidia_Chip_Fraud_Case
