A technology company executive and two other people have been charged with violating American export laws to help China boost its artificial intelligence capacity.
Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, Ruei-Tsang “Steven” Chang, and Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun, are charged with diverting “high-performance computer servers assembled in the United States and integrating sophisticated U.S. artificial intelligence technology to China,” according to a Department of Justicenews release.
“Yih-Shyan Liaw, Ruei-Tsang Chang, and Ting-Wei Sun allegedly defrauded the United States by diverting hundreds of servers with advanced artificial intelligence capabilities to Chinese customers,” FBI Assistant Director in Charge James C. Barnacle, Jr of the New York Field Office said.
Liaw’s company, Supermicro, sent nearly $2.5 billion worth of advanced AI technology to China, including about $510 million worth of servers assembled in the United States between April and May of 2025, according toABC News.
The DOJ said that Liaw and Chang working with a Southeast Asian company to place orders with Supermicro for another company.
The company that was supposedly the customer then sent the servers to China with the knowledge of the defendants.
False documents were prepared to mask the real end user. Dummy serves that were exact replicas of functioning ones were made for inspection at the company that had forwarded the working serves to China. Surveillance cameras eventually caught workers preparing the dummy servers.
“The indictment unsealed today details alleged efforts to evade U.S. export laws through false documents, staged dummy servers to mislead inspectors, and convoluted transshipment schemes, in order to obfuscate the true destination of restricted AI technology—China,” John A. Eisenberg, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, said.
“Controlling the export of sensitive U.S. artificial intelligence technology is essential to safeguarding our national security and defending the homeland,” Roman Rozhavsky, assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence and Espionage Division, said.
“That’s why combating export violations is among the FBI’s highest priorities, and we will continue working with our law enforcement, private sector, and international partners to bring to justice all who take action to undermine U.S. national security.”
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