Authorities in Singapore have filed fraud charges against an additional suspect in connection with an alleged scheme to deceive U.S. technology company Dell Technologies about artificial intelligence servers.
Prosecutors charged Jenny Lim on Thursday with participating in fraudulent activities alongside Alan Wei Zhaolun and Aaron Woon Guo Jie, who faced similar charges in February of last year. According to police documentation, the three individuals allegedly worked together in 2024 to deceive Dell by falsely claiming that Aperia International would be the final recipient of servers purchased from the company.
Singapore’s Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam revealed in March of last year that investigators determined the servers in question likely contained Nvidia computer chips. These servers were originally provided by Dell and artificial intelligence server manufacturer Super Micro Computer to Singapore-based businesses before being forwarded to Malaysia, though officials remain uncertain whether Malaysia was their ultimate destination.
The charges come amid ongoing tensions over technology exports, as the United States implemented restrictions on exporting advanced Nvidia chips to China in 2022 due to concerns about potential military applications. Earlier this year in January, the U.S. government gave conditional approval for sales of Nvidia’s H200 chips, which rank as the company’s second-most powerful processors.
According to Nvidia’s February 2025 financial disclosure, Singapore represented the chip manufacturer’s second-largest market during 2024, generating 18% of total revenue behind only the United States. However, Singapore officials stated last year that merely 1% of Nvidia’s chips actually arrived in Singapore for use in local data centers.
Nvidia’s revenue classification system is based on the headquarters locations of their customers rather than where products are physically delivered. The company’s 2026 financial year filing shows that sales to customers in the United States, Taiwan, and China comprised 98% of total revenue.
In a related development, U.S. authorities filed charges in March against three individuals connected to Super Micro, including one of the company’s co-founders, alleging they facilitated the illegal export of at least $2.5 billion worth of American AI technology to China in violation of export regulations.
