Technology executive Greg Lui's GPU-smuggling scheme is reportedly linked to Supermicro indictment in a broader investigation into chip diversion.
Federal authorities have arrested California businessman Greg Lui and charged him with conspiracy to smuggle more than $300 million worth of controlled AI servers to China. According to the indictment, Lui's scheme involved shipping AI servers to Malaysia and Singapore, falsely representing those countries as the servers' final destinations.
Lui's company, Earthmade, received more than $176 million from Malaysian transshipment companies between January and October 2024. In one documented instance, 27 servers worth approximately $7.6 million were shipped from Los Angeles to Kuala Lumpur before reaching a Chinese buyer in Hangzhou.
The indictment names Lui as the sole individual defendant, along with three companies: Earthmade, Topmost, and Coindigger, all incorporated in California's City of Industry. The document also references three unnamed U.S. AI server manufacturers, two U.S. freight forwarders, two Malaysian transshipment companies, and five unnamed co-conspirators.
A notable connection emerges through Co-Conspirator 4, identified as "the purported Chief Technology Officer for Malaysian Transshipment Company 1" who "in reality was an international broker of export-controlled servers and the incorporator of Topmost." Public records identify this person as Tingwei Sun, a Taiwanese national who was indicted earlier this year alongside two Supermicro employees for illegally smuggling $2.5 billion worth of Supermicro servers equipped with AI chips into China—a remarkably similar scheme.
Lui allegedly used fraudulent documentation to characterize Topmost as the buyer and an unnamed Malaysian front company as the destination. Topmost's registered address is located near Earthmade in the City of Industry. Both Sun and Co-Conspirator 4 operated as brokers of export-controlled servers, and Earthmade's product list includes five Supermicro items among its twelve offerings.
The indictment identifies "Malaysian Transshipment Company 1," which paid Earthmade over $80 million between January and October 2024, as having been established around October 22, 1999, primarily in the lumber and wood products sector. Malaysian corporate records show that Indah Plywood matches this description precisely.
Indah Plywood's financial records reveal a dramatic reversal. In the fiscal year ending October 31, 2023, the company swung from a 78,067 Malaysian ringgit ($19,099) loss to a 10,501,710 ringgit ($2.57 million) profit—more than double its annual revenue that year and its sole profitable year in five years. The company is now winding up operations.
A timing puzzle complicates the Indah Plywood connection: the company posted its $2.57 million profit in 2023, while the indictment describes AI server shipments to Malaysian Transshipment Company 1 occurring in 2024. Earthmade itself wasn't established until October 2023, though Coindigger, another Lui entity operating as Earthmade, was incorporated in 2021.
California records show Lui created multiple companies at the same City of Industry address. LEOTAC USA, registered at Topmost's address, lists Lui as chief executive and claims to manufacture duty gear and tactical equipment. Noble Defense Academy LLC was incorporated by Lui in October 2025; one month later he transferred registered agent status to Samuel Lui. Samuel Lui appears as an agent for Vantage Movement Corp., incorporated by Lovette Dobson in February 2025. Dobson works for Bizee, a business formation service whose name has appeared on more than 70,000 U.S. business filings.
If convicted on all charges, Lui faces a statutory maximum of 50 years in prison.