Two more men have been apprehended for allegedly violating export control laws regarding the supply of Nvidia H100 and H200 AI chips to China, reports Bloomberg. The DOJ already had a Houston business owner in its back pocket who had pleaded guilty to its charges. Now two fresh scalps, one based in New York and another in Ontario, are facing heat for allegedly facilitating this high-tech smuggling operation.
The smuggling gang’s ruse was as follows: shipping labels on Nvidia H100 and H200 AI chip cartons/packages/pallets were changed to bear the name of a fictional brand, ‘Sandkyan.’ The troublesome trio was then alleged to have collaborated with employees from both a Hong Kong-based shipping company and a China-based AI tech company to slyly ease the forbidden cargo through U.S. export controls.
