Federal prosecutors say a San Gabriel Valley technology company owner moved more than $300 million worth of restricted high performance computer servers packed with advanced American GPUs into China by routing them through Malaysia and Singapore and using false paperwork that hid the true destination. Greg Lui, 38, also known as Yiu Kong Lui, of San Gabriel, was arrested on October 1, 2026, after a federal grand jury in Los Angeles returned a three count indictment on September 29.
He owns Earthmade Computer Inc., a closely held company based in the City of Industry that was formed in November 2023. Court papers also describe a related entity, Coindigger, that did business as Earthmade, and a later company called Topmost Corp. The indictment charges Lui with conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act and the Export Administration Regulations, outbound smuggling, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
If convicted, he faces a statutory maximum of 20 years in prison on each conspiracy count and 10 years on the smuggling count. An indictment is only an allegation. Lui is presumed innocent unless the government proves its case at trial. According to the Justice Department and the indictment, Lui and unnamed co conspirators used Earthmade between 2023 and 2024 to buy servers containing Nvidia graphics processing units from U.S. manufacturers.
The processors included H100 and A100 models, along with certain GeForce RTX 4090 and RTX 5090 units. Those items fall under Commerce Department export controls that generally require a license before they can be sent to China. Prosecutors say Lui never obtained the licenses. Instead, the government alleges, he and his partners submitted false documentation to the manufacturers.
The paperwork claimed the servers were destined for end users and countries that did not require an export license. Shipments then left the United States for Malaysia and Singapore. From there, co conspirators allegedly re exported the equipment to buyers in China. The indictment states that Lui knew the true end users were in China and knew U.S. rules barred the technology from going there to protect national security and foreign policy interests.
One transaction described in court papers occurred in late January 2024. Lui allegedly placed an order for 27 servers containing H100 GPUs valued at about $7.6 million. The servers were shipped from the Los Angeles area to Kuala Lumpur. The packing list noted that the GPUs were export controlled.
In March 2024, a co conspirator emailed a Malaysian government official stating that the 27 servers had been forwarded to a buyer in China, according to the indictment. Between January and October 2024, Earthmade received more than $176 million from two Malaysia based shipment companies, prosecutors say. The indictment describes additional orders, including one for 92 servers that moved from San Francisco to Kuala Lumpur and later toward Hong Kong, and bank records tied to the payments.
Investigators from the FBI, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service built the case. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said Lui allegedly used false paperwork and third country shipments to move the servers. FBI officials said the investigation showed Lui sold the Chinese government hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of the restricted technology.
Those statements reflect the government’s allegations, not findings by a court. Advanced GPUs and the high performance servers that house them are restricted because they can train large artificial intelligence models and support military, surveillance, and supercomputing work. U.S. rules treat diversion through places such as Malaysia and Singapore as a direct threat to those controls.
Once the hardware reaches a third country that does not require the same license, it can be forwarded to China with far less visibility, undercutting the purpose of the export regime.
