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nationals — Chuan Geng (a lawful permanent resident) and Shiwei Yang (an illegal alien who overstayed her visa) — have been arrested on a federal criminal complaint alleging they knowingly exported to China tens of millions of dollars’ worth of sensitive microchips used in AI applications.
Geng surrendered to federal authorities on Aug 2. Yang was arrested earlier that day. They are charged with violating the Export Control Reform Act, a felony that carries a statutory maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
From Oct 2022 to July 2025, the defendants — through their El Monte-based company, ALX Solutions Inc — knowingly and willfully exported from the US to China sensitive technology, including Nvidia H100 GPUs and Nvidia 4090 GPUs, without first obtaining the required license or authorization from 
Department of Commerce. ALX Solutions Inc was founded in 2022, shortly after the Commerce Department began requiring licenses for the advanced microchips that Yang and Geng are alleged to have illegally exported.
A review of export records, business records, and company websites indicates that a Dec 2024 shipment and at least 20 previous shipments by ALX Solutions involved exports from the US to shipping and freight-forwarding companies in Singapore and Malaysia, which commonly are used as transshipment points to conceal illegal shipments to China.
ALX Solutions has not received payments from the entities to which they purportedly exported goods. Instead, ALX Solutions received numerous payments from companies based in Hong Kong and China, including a $1 million payment from a China-based company in Jan 2024.
For example, in Dec 2024, ALX Solutions sent a shipment that falsely labeled that it was sending GPUs subject to federal laws and regulations. In fact, the shipment contained GPUs that required a license for export to China. Neither the defendants nor their company applied for, nor did they obtain a license from the Commerce Department.
From at least Aug 2023 to July 2024, ALX Solutions bought over 200 Nvidia H100 chips from San Jose, California-based server maker Super Micro Computer, declaring that the customers were in Singapore and Japan.
On one 2023 invoice valued at $28,453,855, ALX declared to Super Micro the customer was in Singapore, but a US export control officer in Singapore could not verify the chips arrived in the country and the company named did not exist at the listed location.
In addition to Nvidia's H100s, the pair is accused of illegally shipping Nvidia video graphics cards known as PNY GE Force RTX 4090, which also require a license for China.
Last week, law enforcement searched ALX Solutions’ office and seized the phones belonging to Geng and Yang that revealed incriminating communications between the defendants, including communications about shipping export-controlled chips to China through Malaysia to evade US export laws.
At their initial appearance in US District Court in Los Angeles on Aug 4, a federal magistrate judge ordered Geng released on $250,000 bond and scheduled an Aug 12 detention hearing for Yang. Arraignment is scheduled for Sep 11. No pleas were taken on Aug 4.
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nationals — Chuan Geng (a lawful permanent resident) and Shiwei Yang (an illegal alien who overstayed her visa) — have been arrested on a federal criminal complaint alleging they knowingly exported to China tens of millions of dollars’ worth of sensitive microchips used in AI applications.
Geng surrendered to federal authorities on Aug 2. Yang was arrested earlier that day. They are charged with violating the Export Control Reform Act, a felony that carries a statutory maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
From Oct 2022 to July 2025, the defendants — through their El Monte-based company, ALX Solutions Inc — knowingly and willfully exported from the US to China sensitive technology, including Nvidia H100 GPUs and Nvidia 4090 GPUs, without first obtaining the required license or authorization from Department of Commerce. ALX Solutions Inc was founded in 2022, shortly after the Commerce Department began requiring licenses for the advanced microchips that Yang and Geng are alleged to have illegally exported.
A review of export records, business records, and company websites indicates that a Dec 2024 shipment and at least 20 previous shipments by ALX Solutions involved exports from the US to shipping and freight-forwarding companies in Singapore and Malaysia, which commonly are used as transshipment points to conceal illegal shipments to China.
ALX Solutions has not received payments from the entities to which they purportedly exported goods. Instead, ALX Solutions received numerous payments from companies based in Hong Kong and China, including a $1 million payment from a China-based company in Jan 2024.
For example, in Dec 2024, ALX Solutions sent a shipment that falsely labeled that it was sending GPUs subject to federal laws and regulations. In fact, the shipment contained GPUs that required a license for export to China. Neither the defendants nor their company applied for, nor did they obtain a license from the Commerce Department.
From at least Aug 2023 to July 2024, ALX Solutions bought over 200 Nvidia H100 chips from San Jose, California-based server maker Super Micro Computer, declaring that the customers were in Singapore and Japan.
On one 2023 invoice valued at $28,453,855, ALX declared to Super Micro the customer was in Singapore, but a US export control officer in Singapore could not verify the chips arrived in the country and the company named did not exist at the listed location.
In addition to Nvidia's H100s, the pair is accused of illegally shipping Nvidia video graphics cards known as PNY GE Force RTX 4090, which also require a license for China.
Last week, law enforcement searched ALX Solutions’ office and seized the phones belonging to Geng and Yang that revealed incriminating communications between the defendants, including communications about shipping export-controlled chips to China through Malaysia to evade US export laws.
At their initial appearance in US District Court in Los Angeles on Aug 4, a federal magistrate judge ordered Geng released on $250,000 bond and scheduled an Aug 12 detention hearing for Yang. Arraignment is scheduled for Sep 11. No pleas were taken on Aug 4.
justice.gov/opa/pr/two-chi
reuters.com/business/autos