Overview
- Alan Hao Hsu of Missouri City and his firm HAO Global pleaded guilty to smuggling and unlawful export tied to Nvidia H100 and H200 GPUs acquired in the U.S. between October 2024 and May 2025, with sentencing set for Feb. 18.
- Prosecutors say HAO Global was funded by more than $50 million in wire transfers linked to China, including a Hong Kong logistics company, to finance bulk GPU purchases from a North Carolina supplier.
- Investigators report seizing Nvidia technologies and cash worth over $50 million, blocking roughly $100 million in additional exports, and estimate about $50 million in restricted chips reached China before the disruption.
- Court filings detail tactics including false end‑user claims, mislabeling shipments as adapters or servers, relabeling GPUs with the fictitious brand “SANDKYAN,” and routing through third countries to conceal final destinations.
- The probe, part of Operation Gatekeeper led by DOJ, FBI, BIS, and HSI, also produced arrests of Fan Yu Gong in New York and Ben Lin Yuan in Virginia on related charges; both remain in custody with cases pending.