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US charges California businessman with smuggling $300M in GPU servers to China

  • —Shipments are valued at more than $300 million
  • —Route went through Malaysia and Singapore using falsified documents
  • —In 2024 Earthmade billed two Malaysian freight firms over $176 million
  • —Lui was arrested on October 1 on smuggling and money laundering charges
Why it matters: The case highlights the difficulty of tracking advanced AI hardware through global supply chains, affecting the GPU and mining equipment market.
Source: DiarioBitcoin
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