"US prosecutors believe a company at the centre of Thailand's national AI strategy helped move billions of dollars in Nvidia-equipped Supermicro servers into China, with Alibaba among the eventual customers, Bloomberg reported on Friday."
"Prosecutors say he and a "rotating cast" of brokers used the Southeast Asian intermediary to buy and re-route around $2.5bn of servers between 2024 and 2025, with falsified shipping paperwork, swapped serial numbers and dummy servers built to confound inspections."
"Bloomberg's sources identify OBON as the entity referred to in the March 2026 federal indictment of Supermicro co-founder Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw and two associates only as "Company-1". Liaw was arrested in March on charges of conspiring to violate the Export Controls Reform Act and faces up to 20 years on the lead count."
"OBON has not been charged. Alibaba has not been charged. Both are characterised in Friday's reporting as ends of the diversion chain whose role US prosecutors are continuing to investigate. Neither company had commented at the time of publication."
US prosecutors believe OBON Corp., a Bangkok-based AI infrastructure provider tied to Thailand’s National AI Strategy, helped move billions of dollars in Nvidia-equipped Supermicro servers into China. OBON is identified as “Company-1” in a March 2026 federal indictment naming Supermicro co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw and two associates. Liaw faces up to 20 years for conspiring to violate export controls. Prosecutors allege brokers used a Southeast Asian intermediary to buy and reroute about $2.5 billion of servers between 2024 and 2025, using falsified shipping paperwork, swapped serial numbers, and dummy servers to evade inspections. OBON and Alibaba have not been charged, and both are described as parts of a diversion chain under continued investigation.
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