Fifth person charged in Singapore over alleged fraud conspiracy linked to Nvidia chips

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Shi Bingzhe was handed 41 charges for allegedly consenting to money laundering offences committed by two companies where he was a key officer.

SINGAPORE: A fifth person was charged in court on Friday (Nov 13) over an alleged fraud conspiracy linked to Nvidia chips.

Shi, a Chinese national, is the latest in a string of people to face prosecution over the alleged conspiracy.

Four other people were charged before him: Aaron Woon Guo Jie, 42, Alan Wei Zhaolun, 50, Li Ming, 52, and Jenny Lim, 52. Their cases are pending.

CNA understands that the cases are linked to the alleged movement of Nvidia chips.

Woon, Wei and Li, who were first charged in February 2025, were among nine people arrested during raids by the Singapore Police Force (SPF) and Singapore Customs.

The raids came on the back of media reports that claimed intermediaries in Singapore were involved in the illegal movement of Nvidia chips to China, bypassing US export controls.

The US Commerce Department had reportedly been looking into whether DeepSeek – the Chinese company whose artificial intelligence (AI) model rocked the tech world – had been using US chips that were not allowed to be shipped to China.

Shi's charges state that he was the chief operating officer of NJ Global Financial and a director of Superphi at the time of the alleged offences in 2024 and 2025.

The companies allegedly had reasonable grounds to believe that the servers represented benefits from Aperia International's criminal conduct, namely fraud by false representation.

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