Malaysia says it will take measures if the companies involved in the case of Nvidia fraud

Malaysia said it will take “necessary measures” against bad companies if they are involved in a fraud case Linked to the alleged movement of Nvidia from Singapore to China.

That occurs after the Minister of Law and Affairs of the Interior of Singapore, K Shanmugam As reported, he said Monday that servers in the case of fraud may have contained the artificial intelligence chips of NVIDIA that were then sent to Malaysia.

On February 27, Singapore accused three men of fraud, with Local announcer CNA saying He understood that the cases are linked to the supposed Nvidia chips movement.

“The question is whether Malasia was a final destination or Malaysia, it went to another place, which we do not know with certainty at this time,” Shanmugam told journalists.

Talking to CNBC “Squawk Box Asia“On Tuesday, Tengku Zafrul Aziz, Minister of Investment, Commerce and Industry of Malaysia, said that the country has no information that data centers that operate in Malaysia” do not use the chips that are supposed to be using. “

He said such servers are imported by data centers such as MicrosoftAWS and Google.

Shanmugam de Singapore had said that Nvidia chips were integrated into servers supplied by Dell and Supermicro to Singapore -based companies, before going to Malaysia. He added that “there may have been a false representation in the final destination of the servers.”

When asked if Malasia knew where the servers were now, Zafrul replied: “We do not know,” and added that the Malaysian authorities are discussing with the data centers companies and verifying if they have gone to the right parts.

“At this time, there are no such cases in Malaysia to date, and we are investigating if they are. We will definitely discuss this with Singapore and well, companies would have to be responsible for the relevant authorities,” he added.

CNA also reported that two Singapureans were accused of criminal conspiracy to commit fraud to a server supplier.

Citing load sheets, CNA said they allegedly made false representations in 2024 that the elements would not be transferred to a person who is not the “authorized final consignee of the end users.”

The charges also come later Reuters reported at the end of January That the United States Department of Commerce is investigating whether the China Depseek startup has been using US chips that are not allowed to be sent to China.

Citing a person familiar with the matter, Reuters said that “the smuggling of organized chips to China has been tracked outside countries, including Malaysia, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.”

Zafrul told CNBC that Malaysia will verify the fate of the chips, but added: “What I can say today (it) The chips are not destined to be in Malaysia in the first place. So the question is, why is it coming out of Singapore?”