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Malaysia said that she would take “necessary actions” against Malaysian companies if they turn out to be involved in fraud Related to the alleged movement of NVIDIA chips from Singapore to China.
This will take place after Singapore The Interior Minister K Shanmugam Apparently he said on Monday The fact that servers in a scam case could contain Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips, which were then sent to Malaysia.
On February 27, Singapore accused three men of a fraud The local sender says She understood that matters were related to the alleged movement of NVIDIA systems.
“The question is whether Malaysia was the ultimate goal or from Malaysia, she went to a place else, which we do not know at the moment,” Shanmugam told reporters.
Talking to CNBC “Squawk Box asia“On Tuesday, Tertgku Zafrul Aziz, the Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry of Malaysia, said that the country has no information that data center companies operating in Malaysia” do not use the systems they should use. “
He said that such servers are imported by a data center such as MicrosoftAws and Google.
Shanmuga from Singapore said that Nvidia fries were embedded in servers provided by Dell and Supermicro to companies based in Singapore before they left for Malaysia. He added that “there could be a false representation in the final destination of the servers.”
Asked if Malaysia knew where the servers were now, Zafrul replied: “We don't know”, adding that the Malaysian authorities are talking to data centers and checking if they went to the right pages.
“At the moment there are no such cases in Malaysia and we are investigating whether they are. We will definitely discuss it with Singapore and well, the companies would have to be held responsible by the relevant authorities, “he added.
Cna also announced that two Singapore were accused of criminal conspiracy in order to fraud the server supplier.
Citing sheets of fees, CNA said that they allegedly made false statements in 2024 that the elements would not be transferred to a person other than “the authorized final recipient of end users”.
Fees also appear after Reuters announced at the end of January The fact that the American Trade Department wonders if the Chinese startup AI Deepseek uses American systems that cannot be sent to China.
Referring to the person who knew this matter, Reuters said that “organized smuggling of AI chip chips to China was tracked from countries, including Malaysia, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.”
Zafrul told CNBC that Malaysia will check the destination of the tokens, but added: “What can I say today (is) that the tokens are not to be in Malaysia. So the question is: why does Singapore come out? “