> Supermicro Co-Founder Indicted in $2.5 Billion Nvidia GPU Smuggling Scheme

> On Thursday, the Justice Department announced it had indicted 71-year-old co-founder Wally Liaw, along with a Supermicro sales manager in Taiwan, Ruei-Tsang "Steven" Chang, and a contractor Ting-Wei "Willy" Sun for conspiring to smuggle the GPUs starting in 2024.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/co-founder-of-us-server-maker-ind...

> Prosecutors allege that Mr Liaw used brokers to order servers containing advanced Nvidia chips on behalf of a “pass-through” entity in South-East Asia; many were assembled in America and shipped to that entity, then repackaged in unmarked boxes and sent on to China. To fool customs inspectors, those involved allegedly created thousands of “dummy” servers to sit in the warehouses where the buyer claimed to store the equipment.

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/03/26/a-new-case-of-...

The good news jail time for a founder is sounding quite possible.

contributed to this

If you're helping break federal law and you know about it, you should go to jail.

That's what I presume the "contributed to this" meant, this=this crime