Overview
- Taiwan’s Keelung District Prosecutors on Monday filed indictments against nine people, including an Nvidia Taiwan manager surnamed Chang and several Taiwan‑based staff from Supermicro, Albatron and Chief Telecom.
- Prosecutors say the scheme centered on an order for 130 Supermicro B300 servers, of which 74 were delivered to Chinese customers through direct and transshipment routes and 56 were seized by Taiwan customs.
- Investigators allege insiders used forged end‑user agreements, false shipping paperwork and transshipments through Indonesia, Japan and Hong Kong to hide the true destinations of the servers.
- Defendants face charges such as forgery, breach of trust and embezzlement with prosecutors seeking prison terms of up to five years for several accused, while the companies themselves have not been charged.
- The case builds on a March U.S. indictment and has immediate market and policy effects, prompting stock drops, internal company probes and renewed calls in Taiwan and Washington to strengthen export controls and compliance checks.