Super Micro Computer CEO Charles Liang spoke out during the company’s fiscal third quarter earnings call to deliver a message. “No one” at the company besides three indicted employees—including cofounder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw—were involved in what prosecutors have called an elaborate scheme to smuggle servers to China in violation of U.S. export controls, said Liang. The stock rose 18% in after-hours trading.
The server manufacturer’s third quarter earning call on Tuesday was the first since Liaw and two other defendants were indicted in a criminal investigation over U.S. export controls and an alleged scheme to smuggle $2.5 billion in servers to China.
