Overview
- Jenny Lim, Aperia’s chief financial officer, was charged in Singapore on Thursday and released on S$350,000 bail, with a pre-trial conference set for May 22.
- Prosecutors say she conspired in 2024 with CEO Alan Wei and sales head Aaron Woon to tell Dell that Aperia International would use the servers, though the machines were later sent to Malaysia.
- Police linked the Singapore cases to suspected movement of servers that may contain Nvidia chips, which reporters have tied to efforts to dodge U.S. export limits on advanced AI hardware to China.
- Wei and Woon were first charged in February last year after raids that led to nine arrests, and investigators say they are probing 22 individuals and companies for false end-user claims.
- In a parallel U.S. case in March, prosecutors charged three people tied to Super Micro with routing at least $2.5 billion of servers to China through a Southeast Asian intermediary that repackaged shipments in unmarked boxes.