The Singapore Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that it had conducted an investigation into Alice Huang – a close friend of the now former head of Nvidia could be associated with the server manufacturer Supermicro. Despite the request for assistance, US authorities provided Singapore with only “limited assistance.”
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Singapore Police and Customs began investigating Huang’s company, Megaspeed, in February 2025. Suspicions were related to the submission of false declarations when purchasing servers and other related violations, but the entrepreneur was not charged with espionage. Singapore authorities tried to find out whether the servers exported to Malaysia ended up in third countries. Companies based in Singapore often purchase goods without actually importing them into the country, which acts as a hub for trade throughout Asia. Due to the small size of the country, only a limited number of data centers can be located here.
Therefore, the Malaysian state of Johor, located 20 km from the border with Singapore and part of a special economic zone, has become a major data center center. At the same time, Singapore is forced to ensure that its hospitality is not abused. Therefore, Megaspeed’s activities aroused suspicion and became the basis for an investigation. The US authorities also showed interest in this case: on June 24, 2025, the Bureau of Industry and Security visited Megaspeed to check whether the equipment purchased by the company had reached its destination. Alice Huang was present and was later summoned by the Singapore Police. As a result of the meeting, her passport was confiscated to ensure her presence in the country during the investigation.
During the investigation, the police began to suspect that Supermicro, a server manufacturer that had previously been at the center of scandals on several occasions, might be involved in the situation. Supermicro denied the fact of any transactions with Megaspeed. The company cooperated with Singapore authorities only to a “limited extent,” and in July 2025, Singapore prosecutors asked the US authorities for assistance. Since September 2025, the country’s law enforcement agencies have repeatedly sent requests to American departments, but until now they have received only a minimum of information from them.
In February 2026, the Singapore Police Force concluded that it did not have enough evidence to prove that Ms Huang had committed misrepresentation offences. She was given a stern warning and banned from entering Singapore. The police returned Juan’s passport and she left the country that same day. The country’s authorities have thus demonstrated that they do not intend to help circumvent sanctions and take the slightest suspicions in this regard seriously. This aspect is also important for Nvidia itself, since customers from Singapore can account for up to 20% of the company’s quarterly revenue.
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