The high-profile cases put Singapore and neighbouring Malaysia under spotlight, with both countries starting investigations into whether chips subject to US export curbs were funnelled via them to restricted destinations. Advanced artificial intelligence chips developed by US firms from Nvidia to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are banned by the US from being shipped to markets including China.
Singaporean prosecutors secured eight more weeks to deepen a probe and potentially bring more charges against three men accused of fraud in shipping servers suspected of containing Nvidia Corp. chips banned from China.
Prosecutors asked for an extension in court proceedings to gather more evidence, and told the court on Friday they may bring additional charges. The judge set the next court hearing for June 27 and told the prosecution to present more evidence at that session.
