Super Micro Co-Founder Arrested For Smuggling $2.5B In NVIDIA GPUs To China

>personally holds $464 MILLION in SMCI stock

>charged with smuggling BILLIONS in Nvidia servers to china

>used a southeast asian shell company to funnel $2.5B in servers to chinese buyers

>$510 million worth shipped in just THREE WEEKS in spring 2025

>built thousands of fake dummy servers to fool U.S compliance auditors

>caught on surveillance camera using a HAIR DRYER to swap serial number stickers

>coordinated the whole thing over encrypted group chats

>SMCI down 12% after hours

>faces up to 30 years in federal prison

ITS SO OVER…

????BREAKING: SUPER MICRO CO-FOUNDER ARRESTED FOR SMUGGLING $2.5B IN NVIDIA GPUs TO CHINA

>SMCI co-founder Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw arrested today
>personally holds $464 MILLION in SMCI stock
>charged with smuggling BILLIONS in Nvidia servers to china
>used a southeast asian shell… https://t.co/SfIFc0SPed pic.twitter.com/93QE72ddph

— NIK (@ns123abc)March 20, 2026

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