# Taiwan Indicts Nine — Including an Nvidia Manager — Over B300 Exports to China

Times of AI Desk · 2026-08-24 · Policy

[https://timesof.ai/2026/08/taiwan-nvidia-b300-smuggling-indictment](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/taiwan-nvidia-b300-smuggling-indictment)

> Taiwan’s Keelung District Prosecutors Office indicted nine people — including an employee of Nvidia’s Taiwan unit and Super Micro staff — over the alleged illegal export of Nvidia B300 AI servers to China. Reuters: the scheme dressed 130 B300 systems as staying in Taiwan; later coverage cites 74 shipped via Japan and Indonesia and 56 seized. Allegations, not convictions. First known criminal indictment of an Nvidia employee in a Taiwan AI-chip smuggling case.

B300 is supposed to be the easy case: a named SKU, a named geography, a customs form. An **Nvidia Taiwan partner manager** in the dock is how the **gray market** becomes a **corporate-compliance** story ahead of **August 26** earnings.

**Keelung District Prosecutors** announced indictments of **nine** people, including an employee of **Nvidia’s Taiwan unit** (surnamed **Chang**, a distribution **partner manager**) and **two** employees of **Super Micro’s** Taiwan unit, over **illegal export of high-end AI servers** to **China**. **Reuters**: the group made it appear that **130 B300** servers ordered from Super Micro would be **installed in a rented Taiwan facility**; **customs stopped** some shipments. Subsequent **Bloomberg / Japan Times** detail: **74** servers with **B300** GPUs allegedly moved to China via **Japan and Indonesia**; **56** seized. Charges reported include **breach of trust** and **document forgery**. First known **criminal indictment of an Nvidia employee** in a Taiwan AI-chip smuggling case. **Allegations**, not convictions.

## What prosecutors said

| Item | Keelung statement Aug 24 + Reuters / Bloomberg |
|------|------------------------------------------------|
| **Defendants** | **9** people; **Nvidia Taiwan** employee + **Super Micro Taiwan** employees named among them |
| **SKU** | **Nvidia B300** (restricted for China sale) |
| **Cover story** | **130** servers “for a Taiwan colo” |
| **Throughput alleged** | **74** exported; **56** seized (Bloomberg/JT; Reuters confirms customs stops) |
| **Routing** | **Japan**, **Indonesia** as pass-throughs |
| **Status** | **Indictment** — Nvidia the **company** is not the defendant in the Reuters writeup |

Date the **announcement** to **Monday August 24** (Reuters Taipei dateline). Tuesday Japan Times / Yahoo pieces are **coverage**. Digitimes/Tom’s Hardware same-day scheme detail is secondary of the Keelung file.

Not August 10 **$500B financing**, not August 22 **>15% server ASP** (pricing), not same-day **Groq 3 LPX / Vera** (product). This is **export-control enforcement**.

## Limits

- **Allegations, not convictions.**
- Nvidia the company is **not** the defendant in the Reuters writeup.
- How many of the **130** units actually landed in the PRC is disputed across wires (**74** exported / **56** seized in Bloomberg/JT).

## Sources

- [Reuters: Taiwan indicts 9 over alleged illegal export of AI servers to China (August 24, 2026)](https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwan-indicts-9-over-alleged-illegal-export-ai-servers-china-2026-08-24/)
- [Keelung District Prosecutors Office statement (August 24, 2026)](https://www.klc.moj.gov.tw/media/450456/1150824%E5%9F%BA%E6%AA%A2%E5%81%B5%E7%B5%90%E4%B8%8D%E6%B3%95%E5%87%BA%E5%8F%A3%E9%AB%90%E9%9A%8E%E4%BC%BA%E6%9C%8D%E5%99%A8%E6%A1%88%E4%BB%B6%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E%E7%A8%BF.pdf)
- [Japan Times: Taiwan indicts Nvidia manager following chip-smuggling probe (August 25 coverage of Monday indictment)](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/25/asia-pacific/crime-legal/taiwan-nvidia-chip-smuggling/)
- [Tom’s Hardware: Nine indicted over illegal export of Nvidia B300 GPUs (August 24, 2026)](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nine-indicted-by-taiwan-over-illegal-export-of-nvidia-b300-gpus-to-china-details-reveal-five-point-strategy-to-exploit-and-avoid-customs-controls)