Taiwan's Keelung District Prosecutors' Office said on Tuesday it has detained a man surnamed Chang on suspicion of falsifying business documents, after investigators searched his home and his workplace on July 24 in connection with the AI chip smuggling case it opened in May. Bloomberg reports that Chang works for Nvidia and that the workplace search covered his desk at the company's Taipei office, which would make this the first known legal action against an Nvidia employee in a chip diversion case. Prosecutors said they consider him strongly suspected of the offenses and cited risks of flight, destruction of evidence, and collusion with witnesses, but haven’t accused Nvidia of any wrongdoing.
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